Graph modeling techniques

Graph databases including Neo4j are versatile pieces of software that can be used to model and store almost any form of data including ones that would be traditionally stored in RDBMS or document databases. Neo4j in particular is designed to have capabilities as a high-performance store for day-to-day transactional data as well as being usable for some level of analytics. Almost all domains including social, medical, and finance bring up problems that can easily be handled by modeling data in the form of graphs.

Aggregation in graphs

Aggregation is the process in which we can model trees or any other arbitrary graph structures with the help of denormalization into a single record or document entity.

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