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> Not the entire point. Relational databases have schemas that are not well suited to graph structures, and SQL is also a barrier. The latest research disagree
by assface 10y ago
> Not the entire point. Relational databases have schemas that are not well suited to graph structures, and SQL is also a barrier.
The latest research disagrees with your statement:
http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper20.pdf http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper20.pdf
- anonetal 10y agoI think the following is a better references for putting unstructured property graphs or RDF into relational schemas. SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store; SIGMOD 2015. Previous hackernews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11101013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11101013
- lobster_johnson 10y agoIt doesn't. That paper proposes a data layer called Grail on top of an RDBMS, which is exactly what I described in my comment. An RDBMS may perform well at storing graph-like structures, but is not ergonomically suited to be used directly by humans for that purpose.