Graph is a data model that has long lingered on the fringe of mainstream adoption. But that is changing, as graph lends itself well to representing many real world problems, and the technology is ...

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 ...

Douglas Adams once wrote of a Holistic Detective Agency. The central character in this story, Dirk Gently, was able to solve cases with his understanding of the fundamental interconnectedness of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morgan Stanley recently predicted there will be 75 billion connected devices in use worldwide by 2020, a number rapidly ...

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 ...

The relational database is primarily oriented toward the modeling of objects (entities) and relationships. Generally, the relational model works best when there are a relatively small and static ...

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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 ...

A lot has happened in graph land in the last six months. Quick recap: a new player (TigerGraph), Microsoft ramping up its graph play with graph support in SQL Server and CosmosDB, and the number two ...