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What is a Graph? What is Graph Databases?

In this blog we will cover graph and graph databases, now a days graph databases is most demandable and used in recent type. It is the type of NoSQL database.

  • Graph is a data structure of the form G(V,E)





  • Graph edges may have weights and directions

  • Directed graphs may have cycles










Graphs can…

  • model pairwise relationships between people, objects, or nodes in a network

  • uncover insights about the strength and direction of the relationship













Some Graph Algorithms

  • Graph traversal:

* Depth-first search

* Breadth-first search

  • Shortest Path:

* Floyd-Warshall Algorithm

* Dijkstra’s Algorithm

* Bellman-Ford Algorithm

  • Maximum Flow:

* Maximum Bipartite Path

* Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm

* Edmonds-Karp Algorithm

  • Minimum Spanning Tree

* Prim’s Algorithm

* Kruskal’s Algorithm

  • Topological Sorting:

* Kahn’s Algorithm

  • Cycle Detection

  • Connectivity

* Minimum cut

  • Back-Tracking

  • Graph Isomorphism

  • Traveling Salesman Problem


Types of Graph Analytics

  • Path analysis: This type of analysis can be used to determine the shortest distance between two nodes in a graph, for example. An obvious use case is route optimization that is particularly applicable to logistics, supply and distribution chains and traffic optimization for smart cities.

  • Connectivity analysis: This type of graph analysis can be applied tor determining weaknesses in networks such as a utility power grid. It also enables comparing connectivity across networks.

  • Community analysis: Distance and density–based analysis is used to find groups of interacting people in a social network, for example, and identifying whether they are transient and predicting if the network will grow.

  • Centrality analysis: This analysis type enables identifying relevancy to find the most influential people in a social network, for example, or to find most highly accessed web pages—such as by using the PageRank algorithm


Graph Databases

  • Use graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges and properties to represent and store data

  • also called a graph-oriented database, is a type of NoSQL database that uses graph theory to store, map and query relationships

  • Some Systems:

* OntoText GraphDB

* OpenLink Virtuoso

* Neo4j

* Amazon Neptune

* AllegroGraph

* OrientDB

  • Some Graph DB Query Languages

* OWL

* SPARQL

* Cypher

* Gremlin



RDBMS vs Graph Databases




Relational vs Graph Model

Relational Model Graph Model



Neo4j Graph Database


Example:

Property Graph Model



Neo4j Key Features


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