Re:Sortledton: A Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structu...
by bawolff on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:22PM
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> You don't need a set, map, heap, stack, array, hash etc database.
On the contrary, redis is super popular, and that is basically what it is.
> More concretely I'm pretty sure you could demonstrate using relational algebra that any graph can be formed pretty trivially using relations. So I think there is probably provably no use case that can't be done with a more traditional RDBMS.
The question would be more about efficiency & ease of use than if you could literally just store a graph in a rdbms
On the contrary, redis is super popular, and that is basically what it is.
> More concretely I'm pretty sure you could demonstrate using relational algebra that any graph can be formed pretty trivially using relations. So I think there is probably provably no use case that can't be done with a more traditional RDBMS.
The question would be more about efficiency & ease of use than if you could literally just store a graph in a rdbms