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 ...

The timing of Facebook's Graph Search announcement yesterday was fortuitous for this blogger since I have been exploring open source graph databases such as Neo4j as of late. Neo4j is not the ...

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 ...