What's your Bacon number, an introduction to Graph databases.

2022

TL; DR

In graph databases, relationships between data is a first-class citizen allowing for new and exciting ways to explore and query data. Join this session to see how we use a graph database to solve the bacon number challenge.

Session Details

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and this is often the case when working with data. As users of relational databases, we often try to store data in tables even when there are better alternatives. This session introduces you to graph databases where the relationship between data is a first-class citizen, supporting many new and exciting ways to explore and query data. To show how this works, we will import data from the International Movie Database(IMDB) to calculate the bacon number of your favourite actors.

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