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yeah, I see these examples a lot so safe to say its niche and used by large banks, feds etc and not everyday businesses?

by jaxk 5y ago

itguy1308 5y ago
What do you mean with "everyday businesses"? I would not say that graph databases are niche...
- thorin 5y ago
  I wouldn't say they are niche, but many people I work with would model these systems in relational or no sql databases rather than pick a graph database for such a specific use case. With the popularity of microservice approach, this may be changing. Traditionally applications were based around 1 or few single datastores.
  - jaxk 5y ago
    exactly, seems graph db just help reduce verbosity of sql query if cypher or something else is used.
malux85 5y ago
No, because although individually each use case above could be described as niche (maybe) - there’s so many different ones, in so many different industries, there’s clearly a general use case. I’ve been a developer with 18 years commercial experience now and I’ve seen graph databases in all size businesses as I’ve travelled the world, from 1-2 person startups to huge online casinos, heck, I’m a single person startup and I have two myself, one with 200,000,000 nodes and there’s no way a traditional database could do what that system is doing (I tried with Postgres, HBase on Hadoop, and Cassandra) Sure they are not as common as traditional DBs, but they are far from niche, that’s why (as you said in your original post) there’s so many products in this space competing - they are actually a thing, they are actually useful, and for some projects, critical.
- jaxk 5y ago
  yeah but as a novice dev I have never come across a job listing that needed a graph db expertise of any kind, there are tons that need nosql though, along with traditional rdbms of course, why is that?
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  - chalcolithic 5y ago
    Actually upwork seeems to have plenty, and unless I'm mistaken they are all of "(re)write cypher query" kind.
- chalcolithic 5y ago
  What is your graph db of choice? What are the more popular ones in your opinion?

yeah, I see these examples a lot so safe to say its niche and used by large banks, feds etc and not everyday businesses?

by jaxk 5y ago

yeah, I see these examples a lot so safe to say its niche and used by large banks, feds etc and not everyday businesses?

itguy1308 5y ago

What do you mean with "everyday businesses"? I would not say that graph databases are niche...

thorin 5y ago
I wouldn't say they are niche, but many people I work with would model these systems in relational or no sql databases rather than pick a graph database for such a specific use case. With the popularity of microservice approach, this may be changing. Traditionally applications were based around 1 or few single datastores.
- jaxk 5y ago
  exactly, seems graph db just help reduce verbosity of sql query if cypher or something else is used.

malux85 5y ago

No, because although individually each use case above could be described as niche (maybe) - there’s so many different ones, in so many different industries, there’s clearly a general use case. I’ve been a developer with 18 years commercial experience now and I’ve seen graph databases in all size businesses as I’ve travelled the world, from 1-2 person startups to huge online casinos, heck, I’m a single person startup and I have two myself, one with 200,000,000 nodes and there’s no way a traditional database could do what that system is doing (I tried with Postgres, HBase on Hadoop, and Cassandra) Sure they are not as common as traditional DBs, but they are far from niche, that’s why (as you said in your original post) there’s so many products in this space competing - they are actually a thing, they are actually useful, and for some projects, critical.

jaxk 5y ago
yeah but as a novice dev I have never come across a job listing that needed a graph db expertise of any kind, there are tons that need nosql though, along with traditional rdbms of course, why is that?
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- chalcolithic 5y ago
  Actually upwork seeems to have plenty, and unless I'm mistaken they are all of "(re)write cypher query" kind.
chalcolithic 5y ago
What is your graph db of choice? What are the more popular ones in your opinion?