Graph Databases: What? Why? and How?

Introduction to graph databases with a simple practical example

1. Graph databases: What? Why? and How? By Nicky Wrightson - Principal Engineer @ FT
2. What? What is a graph database? Why? Why use a graph database? How? How to use a graph database
3. What? What is a graph database?
4. Graph Theory G = (V, E) Where V is a set of nodes also called vertices E is a set of edges also called links
5. “a graph database is a database designed to treat the relationships between data as equally important to the data itself” Neo4J https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-database/
9. What? What is a graph database? Why? Why use a graph database?
10. Live demo time: http://www.six-degrees.ft.com
12. Implicitly any content about horsemeat is also about food safety and so on
13. What? What is a graph database? Why? Why use a graph database? How? How to use a graph database
14. How can we store our Graph?
15. Triple Stores
16. PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> SELECT ?name WHERE { ?person foaf:name ?name . } Find me all subjects (?person) and objects (?name) linked with the foaf:name predicate
17. Cosmos DB Property Graphs
18. What makes a good candidate for a graph database?
19. https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
20. https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
21. https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
22. https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
23. LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM “characters.csv” AS line https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
24. https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
25. Give me the details of who killed their own relative? MATCH (killer:Person)- [:HAS_FATHER|:HAS_MOTHER|:HAS_SIBLING]- (relative:Person)-[:KILLED_BY]-(killer) RETURN killer, relative https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
26. https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
27. Other examples …. Which house killed the most? Which house married the most? https://github.com/nwrigh/game-of-thrones-dataset
28. Gotchas with Property Graphs
29. Watch out for the size
30. Some more things to look out for
31. Conclusion
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