Query optimisation remains a critical discipline in database systems, underpinning the efficiency and responsiveness of data-driven applications. By selecting optimal execution plans, modern query ...

Resource Description Framework (RDF) query processing and optimization underpin the efficient retrieval and manipulation of data within vast, interconnected datasets. At its core, these technologies ...

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 ...

At the second graph tour I attended for Neo4j in Boston earlier this month, and the fourth event that has taken place so far, I got a fascinating update that showed how the use of graphs gradually ...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended and spoke at the first stop in the Neo4j GraphTour in Washington D.C. and I was able to get the best answer yet to a question that I’d been pondering: what’s the ...

Is it SQL, NoSQL, or NewSQL? Even though it's just naming conventions, MemSQL is usually thought of as part of the NewSQL lot. That is, databases grounded on the relational SQL model yet adopting some ...

Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance. This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem, who explains why his sector needs its own ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...