This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is a graph database? Graph databases organize facts into connected bundles, ...

Graph databases are the fastest growing database technology, representing a departure from the relational and NoSQL models – a departure that is inherently worthwhile. Graph Databases For Dummies, ...

The problem: The app must store a collection of people and who they know. Sometimes it must find out everyone who knows someone who knows Bob. Sometimes it must look further for everyone who is three ...

A relatively new concept in the world of database systems is the NoSQL DBMS. What is NoSQL? Well, I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? I mean, it is sort of right there in the name. But ...

Master Data Management is a practice adopted when a company really gets serious about making use of its data. Based on recent trends and some emerging analyst research, it seems that when companies ...

Graph databases excel for apps that explore many-to-many relationships, such as recommendation systems. Let’s look at an example Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. There has been a ...

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To address a growing need for data professionals with graph database expertise, Neo4j is offering a certification exam online through its GraphAcademy. The new certification is a response to the ...

Graph databases, which explicitly express the connections between nodes, are more efficient at the analysis of networks (computer, human, geographic, or otherwise) than relational databases. That ...