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Graph Databases | Bloor
What is a graph database?
A graph database is one that stores data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities. A variant on this theme are RDF (resource description framework) databases which store data in the format subject-predicate-object, which is known as a triple. There are three…
Harnessing The Power Of Data Discovery: Pt. 2 | Yarcdata
Graph database vs relational database
The marketing manager is hypothesis-testing: she might use this data for a while and then realize that adding geographic information would be useful too since a marathon is going to take place in this town. This way, she can figure out which folks and their friends who live in…
What Is Big Data? An Introduction To The Big Data Landscape.
Different data types suit different databases
Despite the popularity and well understood nature of relational databases, it is not the case that they should always be the destination for data, even when tidied up. Certain data types suit certain classes of database better. For instance, documents encoded as XML are most…