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Re:Ask HN: Are graph databases used in the wild? by malux85 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:29AM (#27221542)
No, because although individually each use case above could be described as niche (maybe) - there’s so many different ones, in so many different industries, there’s clearly a general use case.

I’ve been a developer with 18 years commercial experience now and I’ve seen graph databases in all size businesses as I’ve travelled the world, from 1-2 person startups to huge online casinos, heck, I’m a single person startup and I have two myself, one with 200,000,000 nodes and there’s no way a traditional database could do what that system is doing (I tried with Postgres, HBase on Hadoop, and Cassandra)

Sure they are not as common as traditional DBs, but they are far from niche, that’s why (as you said in your original post) there’s so many products in this space competing - they are actually a thing, they are actually useful, and for some projects, critical.

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Re:Ask HN: Are graph databases used in the wild? by chalcolithic on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:30AM (#27253323)
What is your graph db of choice? What are the more popular ones in your opinion?
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Re:Ask HN: Are graph databases used in the wild? by jaxk on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:00AM (#27221986)
yeah but as a novice dev I have never come across a job listing that needed a graph db expertise of any kind, there are tons that need nosql though, along with traditional rdbms of course, why is that?
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Re:Ask HN: Are graph databases used in the wild? by chalcolithic on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:32AM (#27253331)
Actually upwork seeems to have plenty, and unless I'm mistaken they are all of "(re)write cypher query" kind.
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