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Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases

Presented by Emil Eifrem on Jul 01, 2009

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Persistence ,
Database Design
Tags
QCon San Francisco 2008 ,
QCon ,
Graph Database ,
Neo
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Summary
This presentation covers the definition of a graph database (information structured as mathematical graphs with nodes, relationships and properties) and their advantages when dealing with data that is difficult to fit in static tables, is rapidly evolving, or that has a lot of optional attributes. The flexibility of graph databases better support agile development and schema evolution.

Bio
Emil Eifrem created a text role-playing game (that is still being played 15 years later) in C, but is better known for being a developer, an evangelist, mentor, and consulting architect for graph databases while preaching the demise of tabular solutions everywhere.

About the conference
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Further information by Emil Eifrem Posted Jul 3, 2009 6:43 AM
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    Further information

    Jul 3, 2009 6:43 AM by Emil Eifrem

    The slides are also available on Slideshare.



    Check out this High Scalability post for more info and good discussions.



    Finally, for all community documentation and downloads, see neo4j.org.



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    Emil Eifrem

    neo4j.org

    twitter.com/emileifrem

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