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Comment by stingraycharles

9 hours ago

Using the same logic, a key/value database is also a graph database?

Isn’t the biggest benefit of graph databases the indexing and additional query constructs they support, like shortest path finding and whatnot?

I think the confusion stems from the fact that we call a database what is really a database management system.

  • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as a database, is in fact a database management system, or as I've recently taken to calling it, database plus management system.

Yes, the author is likely unaware of this. They see markdown files with links, so a graph and the set of those files, so a "database".

https://neo4j.com/docs/graph-data-science/current/algorithms...

  • Neo4j looooooves the "if you think about it, everything is graphs!" marketing maneuver. They (their marketing department) were the very first thing I thought of when I read this headline.