11 July 2021
What is a Graph Database?
by Lju Lazarevic, Neo4j
- 1. What is a graph database?
- 2. Agenda • Graph theory – The Seven Bridges of Königsberg • What is a property graph database? • Why graph databases are great • Where does a graph database dominate? Some examples • Summary
- 3. Graph Theory – The Seven Bridges of Königsberg Node (Vertex) Relationship (Edge)
- 4. What is a property graph database? 4
- 5. Why graph databases are great - buying trainers 5
- 6. Why graph databases are great - buying trainers 6
- 7. Graph use-cases • Fraud Detection • 360° customer view • Recommendations 7
- 8. Great graph use-cases – Fraud detection 8
- 9. Great graph use-cases – Fraud detection
- 10. Great graph use-cases – Fraud detection Pattern: Identical National Insurance Number related to different entities Pattern: Identical phone number related to different entities
- 11. Great graph use-cases – 360° customer view 11
- 12. Great graph use-cases – 360° customer view 12 External CRM Marketing Product Orders
- 13. Great graph use-cases - Recommendations 13
- 14. Summary • Property graph databases: • are based on graph theory • hold properties for the nodes and relationships • can scale and grow easily • Graph databases are a fantastic fit in applications where: • relationships are important as the data they link • we want to search for behavioural patterns • we want to join disparate data sources together 14
- 15. Questions? 15
