Edge Of Tomorrow - An introduction to Graph Databases

It is an unspoken fact in the world of data that relational databases are inherently bad at handling highly related data! But there is a better way. Graph Databases were born from the NoSQL movement and provide a highly efficient way to model and query data with complex relationships using the concept of Edges and Nodes. In this practical demo-driven session, we will take a look at several implementations of Graph Databases and concepts, looking to understand how and why we should use them. We will specifically take a look at SQL Graph Database (part of SQL Server and Azure SQL), Azure Cosmos DB, TinkerGraph, and Neo4j and demo the SQL Graph Extensions, Cypher, and Gremlin query languages. If you are looking to get started using graph databases then this is the session for you!