Exploring Graphs with Elixir

Wrapping Up

In this chapter, we’ve looked at graphs as a basic data structuring principle and considered how they compare to more familiar means of organizing data. Their open-data model and general flexibility are capabilities that are especially well suited to meeting the challenges posed by large and dispersed datasets.

We’ve introduced some common terms that we’ll use in the book. We’ve contrasted the main graph models we’ll be working with—property graphs and RDF graphs.

We’ve also used a built-in library to create our first graph—“Hello World.” We then defined a simple book graph as a reference graph that we’ll use later.

We’re almost ready to start some coding. So let’s set up an Elixir project and a common library that we’ll use to build ...