Graph databases facilitate discovery and analysis closely connected facts. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

In a graph database, every element contains a direct pointer to its adjacent element and no index lookups are necessary. Before looking into a graph database provider, make sure your intended use ...

Data-hungry AI applications are fed complex information, and that's where graph databases and knowledge graphs play a crucial role.

At the high end of the complexity spectrum for NoSQL database lies the graph database, which are highly specialized data stores used for storing linked data. Instead of storing data in rows/columns or ...

Extending the success of NoSQL databases and big data solutions, architects are now realizing that a new type of approach to working with data, be it a graph database or a graphing engine, can help ...

Emil Eifrem overviews the trends leading to NOSQL, and four emerging NOSQL solutions. He also explains the internals of a graph database and an example of using Neo4j – a graph DB - in production.

The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

NoSQL database systems are becoming popular for big data implementations and for the types of applications mentioned in the paragraphs above (for each specific type of NoSQL offering). The other term ...

A graph database is a single-purpose, specialized platform for building and manipulating graphs. Another often used word for a graph database is graph analytics, which refers to the process of ...

Like other NoSQL databases, a graph database is schema-less. Thus, in terms of performance and flexibility, graph databases hew closer to document databases or key-value stores than they do ...