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by usgroup 2732 days ago
+1. We take for granted the maturity of RDB systems, but it makes for a stark comparison to GraphDBs.

Calculating over or walking over graphs sucks because there is usually a better, less brute way for any particular query.

Unless you have a set of use cases that require the ability to query across near enough random and unindexable subsets of a graph (eg Facebook), you’ll probably be better off with a DB and a spot of flattening.