Council Post: The Technology Helping Companies Embrace The Future of Work
To embrace the future of work, companies need technology that mimics how their organizations are structured and how their workers relate to one another. Today's work relationships, for example, are complex and fluid. Using highly structured relational databases, which organize data hierarchically in rows and columns to represent these relationships, no longer makes sense. Instead, we need adaptable technology that models data based on contextual relationships. Enter graph databases, a revolutionary technology that Gartner predicts will grow 100% per year over the next couple of years. Early Applications Of Graph Databases Graph databases may now be leveraged by giants like Google and Amazon, but they weren't always popular. In fact, their popularity grew with the rise of social media. Consider the complex relationships between people, places and things stored in social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn. Organizing these relationships based on hierarchies is problematic, as it