Introduction

In this article I will give a gentle introduction to Graph Databases using Azure Cloud Platform .

I will start by giving a quick intro to graph databases explaining their use cases and the pros and cons.

Then, we will move to a practical example using Azure CosmosDB with the Apache TinkerPop Gremlin API as an example. The goal is to show how easy is to create a Serverless Graph Database in Azure to model data as graphs.

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Graph Databases

The world of databases is divided in two types:

• Traditional Relational Databases which hold table-like structured data,
• NoSQL or non-relational databases which is a category used to define anything that is non relational. There are many types of databases that aim to model better certain types of data. In this category we have key-value databases, document databases and of course, graph databases.

I talked already about the NoSQL vs SQL dilema but let’s review it really quick…

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