Why You Should Use a Graph Database

Key Takeaways

I've heard M graph being mentioned before and the way that I think I heard it described was that it's almost like a duct DB of graph databases is so what are the benefits there of mem graph is just small and fast and like why do you like it well I like it because it's open source fully a lot of you get involved in neo4j it's really it's really geared at funneling you to Enterprise yeah and I come from an open source background so I'm you know everything we do is open source and everything we consume is open source and then getting you know if if neil4 J's Enterprise product really actually uh was compelling then okay I get it but mem graph's open source is actually compelling and fully functional there are some additional features as always but generally speaking like quadrant the base database that is open source is extremely usable in production so to me that's a big distinction but the design the underlying design and I'm really not an Engineer Expert I haven't even reviewed their source code or anything but what I know from my bird's eye view of it and reading docs and community and interacting with their Community it's yeah they've really focused on performance so using in memory and so I mean you know the difference between storing stuff in memory and dis it's going to be a lot faster and neo4j keeps everything on dis it's using cache most likely but mgraph took kind of the reverse approach it said everything's in memory and now if you want to try to store stuff on dis it's kind of a feature uh and people do want to do that as well for much larger graphs but me mem graph I think kind of caught on to the idea that you don't actually need a massive graph what you really want is the right graph and that can be con constituted of you know 100 nodes but as long as the right graph and then you can Traverse it and filter it the right way it becomes very valuable and doing it quickly and on the fly like we're doing loading stuff in deleting it like we'll just we'll literally create a database and then just delete it right because it's when we're done with it we're done with it so it's a really interesting use case of it fits really well in that um paradigm [Music] B