Graph databases - why so hard?

John Leonard
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Graph databases are shaped the way we think, so why can't people get their heads around them?

Graph databases should be simple and intuitive. After all, we naturally think of things in terms of their relationships with other things. A seven-year-old child might draw one dot representing her...

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