Graph databases excel for apps that explore many-to-many relationships, such as recommendation systems. Let’s look at an example Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. There has been a ...

Graph databases are the fastest growing category in all of data management, according to DB-Engines.com, a database consultancy. Since seeing early adoption by companies including Twitter, Facebook ...

Polyglot persistence is becoming the norm in big data. Gone are the days when relational databases were the one store to rule them all; now the notion of using stores with data models that best align ...

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My fans know that my standard test for everything from PaaS (platform as a service) to alternative programming languages is something I call Granny’s Addressbook, a simple CRUD application. As it ...

A new generation of database products and companies is beginning to emerge, and one of the more interesting examples is Swedish-based Neo Technology, the developer and vendor of the neo4j graph based ...

Douglas Adams once wrote of a Holistic Detective Agency. The central character in this story, Dirk Gently, was able to solve cases with his understanding of the fundamental interconnectedness of ...

Before April this year, if you had thought about Panama at all it would probably have been while leafing through a holiday brochure. But the tiny Central American republic is now also associated with ...