Discuss how a graph database can be useful to implement specific features in hypothetical or real social network
Discuss how a graph
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It is database that uses graph structure with nodes,edges and properties to represent and store data.
It is a type of NoSQL database, created to overcome relational database limitations.
It is powerful tool for graph queries.
Components of Graph database :
Nodes : These are the entities of the graph. It can hold any number of attributes called properties.
Relationship : It provide directed, named, semantically relevant connections between the nodes. Relationship always has a direction, a type, a start node and a end node.
Properties are information of associated nodes
Graph models :
Labeled property graph
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There are multiple types of graph types which are broadly categorized as five types:
Social graph
Intent graph
Consumption graph
Interest graph
Mobile graph
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