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> Just because you conceptualize it in your mental model does not mean you need a graph database.

Yes! When I was younger I worked on a problem once that needed to compute some very basic graph metrics. My seniors tried to do the work in an early graph database and it was a disaster. It turns out literally just reading in the lines from a file and counting things got the job done in a few seconds.

They refused to use the results until they were coming out of the graph database because "just in case we needed other metrics". We never needed the other metrics.