A Crash Course on Graph DBMSs & Kùzu

A Crash Course on Graph DBMSs & Kùzu

Graphs, i.e., networks of nodes and edges, are one of the most natural logical data models (the other being tables/relations) to model application data. Graphs have been the data model of many database management systems (DBMSs) in history. This talk will serve as an introduction to modern graph DBMSs, which adopt the “property graph data model”, which was originally introduced in the Neo4j system and is now more widely adopted across many other systems. I will begin by covering the history of DBMSs to place graph DBMSs in the context of the broader set of DBMS products.