What are graph databases & When to use a graph database

This tutorial helps explain what is a graph database, and when to use a graph database in your project.

What is a graph database
what are graph databases
when to use a graph database
when to use graph databases

Here is a brief recap of the talk. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database. Graph databases allow people to query data along vertices and nodes in some very efficient ways. A graph tends to be an arbitrarily connected set of points. Querying data like this can require many joins in an RDBMS database. So graph database become very handy in these kinds of situations.

Ben explains that he uses a graph database to tackle few kinds of problems. The first kind of problem where where graph databases are used is in trying to traverse many nodes on a graph. An example for this is social networks where people have many friends of friends of other friends. Another use is in proximity algorithms. And lastly, graph databases are used in proximity searches.

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