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Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL
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Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL

by Joe Celko
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate
244 pages
5h 53m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 3

Graph Databases

Abstract

Graph databases model relationships, not data. Just as SQL and RDBMS are based on logic and set theory, graph databases are based on graph theory. The classic example of a popular graph problem is called the “Kevin Bacon problem” in the literature. Given actor Kevin Bacon, a graph database links him to anyone else in the movie industry either by a direct link (had some role in a movie with Kevin Bacon) or by a chain of links (had some role in a movie with someone who had some role in a movie with Kevin Bacon). However, other graph problems look for the shortest paths among a set of paths in a transportation network, the smallest set of nodes that cover a graph, and so forth. There is no ANSI/ISO standard language ...

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ISBN: 9780124071926