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Introduction To Graph Databases

Graph databases are designed to work with highly interconnected data by storing and querying relationships between nodes more efficiently than relational databases. They allow flexible modeling of complex relationships and are well-suited for applications with networks of connected data like social networks. Examples of graph databases include Neo4j, which uses a property graph model to store nodes, relationships, and properties in a flexible schema.

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Introduction To Graph Databases

Graph databases are designed to work with highly interconnected data by storing and querying relationships between nodes more efficiently than relational databases. They allow flexible modeling of complex relationships and are well-suited for applications with networks of connected data like social networks. Examples of graph databases include Neo4j, which uses a property graph model to store nodes, relationships, and properties in a flexible schema.

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Introduction to Graph Databases

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WHAT IS A GRAPH DATABASE?

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Module What is a Graph?
Overview What is a Graph Database?
Why a Graph Database?
Graph Databases vs Relational Databases
Graph Databases vs Document Databases
Examples of Graph Databases

Node

Relation

Node

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Easily extendable and expandable

Graphs Friendly to the human brain


Whiteboard compatible

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A graphh database
d t b i a
is
database that uses graph
structures to represent and
store data

All about relationships


Performance
Graph Flexibility
Databases
Agility
Q
Query l
language

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Property Graph Model

Relationships are
Nodes and
Contains nodes named and
relationships
contain directed with a
and relationships
properties start and end
node

Joanna Microsoft
Name: Joanna Works_For Name: Microsoft
City: Salt Lake City Since: 2010/1/1 City: Salt Lake City
Married: true Rocks: true

Why a Graph Database?

“Use a relational database for all


applications”

“Consider the type of database for


every application you’re writing”

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Why a Graph Database?

Structure and
Highly related
Flexible schema queries are
data
brain friendly

Graph Databases vs. Relational Databases

Relational Graph
Tables Nodes
Schema with nullables No schema
Relations with foreign keys Relation is first class citizen
Related data fetched with joins Related data fetched with a pattern

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Relational Databases Advantages

Highly Calculations
Grouping of data
structured data within one table

The Foreign Key System


Customer
CustomerId Name City
1 J
Joanna S ltL k Cit
SaltLakeCity

Order LineItem
OrderId CustomerId Date OrderId ProductId Quantity
1 1 2015/1/1 1 1 5

Product
ProductId Description Use
1 Candle Inside

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Social network
Friends of friends structure
mySQL and Neo4j
Partner and 1,000,000 people
Vukotic's Each with an average of 50 friends
Experiment Depth 2: Find all friends of a user's friends
Depth 3: Find all friends of friends of a
user's friends
Etcetera

Results

Depth Rel.Db(s) Neo4j(s) #records


2 0,016 0,01 ~2500
3 30,267 0,168 ~110000
4 1543,505 1,359 ~600000
5 Unfinished 2,132 ~8000000

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Relational Database Normalization

Created when disk space was


Normalization is encouraged
expensive

A Social Graph

Cyber ITActive

John Cathy Deborah Jennifer Mike

Graphs ALM Testing Java .NET Web API

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A graph is a collection of nodes
connected by relationships

Summary p databases are flexible and


Graph
performant with highly related data
All database types have their place
Relational databases great for tables

Graph
p databases g great in manyy scenarios
with related data

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