no. not at all. this whole discussion is really about marketing terms. there is absolutely no reason why one can't apply relational operators to graphs. its ju

no. not at all. this whole discussion is really about marketing terms. there is absolutely no reason why one can't apply relational operators to graphs. its just that sql doesn't normally support cyclic evaluation. that's really only the only fundamental difference in a 'graph database' that said, recursion is really handy and SQL is a really crap environment for doing anything but the most basic of evaluations.