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Re:Neo4j raises $325M series F by zozbot234 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:41PM (#27543719)
> to do recursive SQL queries (needed for the types of queries being performed) was annoying. Things worked well enough, but a graph database would have resulted in a much more logical representation of the data structures being used

I think there's plenty of room to disagree with this view that modeling graph data in SQL is not "logical enough". Though to be fair, there seems to be some ongoing work on adding some "property"-based layer to bare SQL in order to make common graphs-and-properties oriented queries a bit more ergonomic.

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Re:Neo4j raises $325M series F by dfraser992 on Thursday June 17, 2021 @03:56PM (#27543880)
For what I was doing, and how I was doing it, working with graph structures directly with Cypher would have been easier. Perhaps "logical" is the wrong word; my intent was to relay my specific experience, not express a general "principle".
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