1 Introduction to graphs
This chapter covers
- An introduction to graphs and graph terminology
- How graph databases help solve highly connected data problems
- The advantages of graph databases over relational databases
- Identifying problems that make good candidates for using a graph database
Modern applications are built on data--data that is ever increasing in both size and complexity. Even as the complexity of our data grows, so do our expectations of what insight our applications can derive from that data. If you are old enough, you likely remember when applications took a long time to load data and had limited features. Today’s reality is different; applications provide powerful, flexible, and immediate insight into data. But for every 100 ...
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