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0 pointsUltraSane1y ago0 comments

Property graphs map to relational databases pretty well. Using Neo4j's terminology

table name -> node label

table row -> node

table column -> node property

The result of a query is a sub-graph and is very composable.

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AtlasBarfed1y ago

I think it maps much better to document databases.

Nodes are just documents.

You just need to slap on a relations document type for the graph edges, and to store edge properties

I was close to finishing at least version 1.0 of a document/graph database on top of Cassandra and dynamodb.

UltraSaneOP1y ago

With Neo4j properties and list members cannot be complex objects just like DB table rows. I was thinking that my dream DB would be a hybrid of MongoDB documents with Neo4j type relationships between them.

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