An Overview of Graph Databases
Darshana Shimpi, Sangita Santosh Chaudhari · International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology · 2013
Graph databases are used for social networking and website link structure as graphs are used for storing connections among users. For example, social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter etc. It has more complicated networks of relationships, so to represent these databases using relational model is not efficient because of large number of table joining. Several well known graph databases are available such as Neo4j, flockdb, allegrograph, sones, trinity, hypergraphdb, infinitegraph, infogrid, orientdb, DEX. In this paper, we have presented comparison of current graph databases and it has been observed that Neo4j is the best in all current current graph databases. General Terms Graph databases.