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## WTF is a graph database - Euler and Graph Theory - Math -- it’s hard, let’s skip it - It’s about data -- lots of it - But let’s zoom in and look at the basics ## Relational model vs graph model - How do we represent THINGS in DBs - Relational vs Graph - Nodes and Relationships ## Why use a graph over a relational DB or other NoSQL? - Very simple compared to RDBMS, and much more flexible - The real power is in relationship-focused data (most NoSQL dbs don’t treat relationships as first-order) - As related-ness and amount of data increases, so does advantage of Graph DBs - Much closer to our whiteboard model EVENT: Nodevember 2016 SPEAKER: Ed Finkler PERMISSIONS: The original video was published on Nodevember YouTube channel with the Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). ORIGINAL SOURCE:
