Graph databases are great. But if I read more FUD about RDBMSs,
I’m going to have another flashback to the 80’s
where someone is telling me about how you don’t want to
dismantle your car every time you park it in the garage
(OODBMS reference for the oldies).
I recently read a graph-database book that explained that
every SQL join requires computing a cartesian product. And
yesterday, a post that explained that equijoins have an
exponential order of complexity. (I guess… if the exponent is 1.)
It’s getting very frustrating to read through the inaccuracies
and FUD, and now, to me, it is all just turning into
Which is why it was nice to see @guyharrison‘s even-handed and accurate treatment in his new book …
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