Do Graph Databases Scale? - DZone Big Data
Graph Databases are a great solution for many modern use cases: Fraud Detection, Knowledge Graphs, Asset Management, Recommendation Engines, IoT, Permission Management … you name it. All such projects benefit from a database technology capable of analyzing highly connected data points and their relations fast – Graph databases are designed for these tasks. But the nature of graph data poses challenges when it comes to *buzzword alert* scalability. So why is this, and are graph databases capable of scaling? Let’s see... In the following, we will define what we mean by scaling, take a closer look at two challenges potentially hindering scaling with graph databases, and discuss solutions currently available. What Is the “Scalability of Graph Databases”? Let’s quickly define what we mean here by scaling, as it is not “just” putting more data on one machine or throwing it on various ones. What you want when working with large or growing datasets is also an acceptabl
