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Originally aired on

February 24th, 2016

040: Graph Databases

Traditional relational databases like MySQL or Postgres are really good at providing many solutions to the problem of persisting state. But these types of database are really horrible at querying highly connected models in an efficient way.

Graph datab

with

Ed Finkler
Chris White

Using graph databases in PHP Show Summary


Sammy Kaye Introduces

Query Languages

Graph DBs don't usually use SQL. The most common query languages are:

Developer Shout-Out

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Panelists

Michelle Sanver

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  • Co-President of PHPWomen
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Ed Finkler

Ed Finkler



Chris White

Chris White


Show Notes Credit

Chris Shaw

Thank you Chris Shaw for authoring the show notes for this episode!

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