The Neo4j graph database
Neo4j is one of the most popular graph databases today. It was developed by Neo Technology, Inc. operating from the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. It is written in Java and is available as open source software. Neo4j is an embedded, disk-based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables. Most graph databases available have a storage format of two types:
- Most graph databases store data in the relational way internally, but they abstract it with an interface that presents operations, queries, and interaction with the data in a simpler and more graphical manner.
- Some graph databases such as Neo4j are native graph database systems. It means that they store the ...
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