A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

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

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

Data models and query languages are admittedly somewhat dry topics for people who are not in the inner circle of connoisseurs. Although graph data models and query languages are no exception to that ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. DataStax offers a commercially supported ‘enterprise-robust’ database built on open source Apache Cassandra. As ...

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 ...

If you were an investor, would you give a mid-sized startup comprised fully of engineers and sporting an open source product $11.5 million to pursue a singular path amidst heavy competition? You might ...

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Aerospike Inc., maker of a highly scalable NoSQL database, today is entering the graph database market with an offering that it claims can outperform and outscale offerings from market leaders such as ...