Graph Databases for Beginners: A (Brief) Tour of Aggregate Stores
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 27, 2018|Reading time: 7 minutes
In 1841, William Buckland was one of the first paleontologists to observe what today we call the Cambrian explosion. At the time, he naturally knew that it would become a favorite metaphor used the world over to describe whenever we… Read more →
Explore: aggregate store • apache cassandra • document database • document store • key value store • MongoDB • nosql • nosql database • Redis • wide-column store
Graph Databases for Beginners: Why We Need NoSQL Databases
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 25, 2018|Reading time: 6 minutes
NoSQL databases are one of those things in life that are unhelpfully defined only by what they are not rather than by what they are, i.e., an anti-definition. NoSQL is a cheeky acronym for Not Only SQL – or more… Read more →
Explore: aggregate store • data model • data valence • data variety • data velocity • data volume • nosql • nosql database • relational database • sql
Why Graph Databases Are Best for Handling Connected Data like in Diaspora
By Neo4j Staff
November 13, 2013|Reading time: 4 minutes
Handling Connected Domains with the “Right Tool for the Job” Sarah Mei recently wrote a great blog post describing the problems she and her colleagues ran into when managing highly connected data using document databases. Document databases (like other aggregate… Read more →
Explore: aggregate store • data model • diaspora • document database • graph database • MongoDB • PostgreSQL • relational database • ruby on rails • social network
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