14. Designing for Graph Databases
“We start with an idea which is then translated into a form, a structure.”
—LINDA VON DEURSENGRAPHIC DESIGNER, FACULTY YALE UNIVERSITY OF ART
Topics Covered In This Chapter
Getting Started with Graph Design
Tips and Traps of Graph Database Design
Case Study: Optimizing Transportation Routes
Graph database design has some things in common with other types of database design, but it has distinct characteristics as well. This chapter delves into details and examples of designing entity and relations between entities along with a description of two different ways of querying graph databases.
Graph databases have some unusual characteristics. Algorithms that run in reasonable time on small graphs ...
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