The problem: The app must store a collection of people and who they know. Sometimes it must find out everyone who knows someone who knows Bob. Sometimes it must look further for everyone who is three ...

A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

My fans know that my standard test for everything from PaaS (platform as a service) to alternative programming languages is something I call Granny’s Addressbook, a simple CRUD application. As it ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a graph database? Graph databases organize facts into connected bundles, ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Graph databases represent one of the fastest-growing areas in the database market. MarketsandMarkets’ report on graph databases predicts that graph databases will grow from $1.9 billion in 2021 to ...

RDF is a graph data model that has been around since 1997. It's a W3C standard, and it's used to power schema.org and Open Graph, among other things. Plus, there's a bunch of RDF-based graph databases ...

When it comes to dating, everybody is highly motivated. So it is no surprise that the nerdy among us put their advanced knowledge to work when seeking out a mate. The most recent celebrated example is ...

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