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Oct 2021

22m 27s

On Graph Databases | The Backend Enginee...

About this episode

I get a lot of emails asking me to talk about graph databases, so I want to start researching them, but I wanted to give you guys the framework of how I think about any databases to defuse any “magic” that might be there.

In this video, I discuss what constrains a database and how the use cases try to work around them.

0:00 Intro

1:50 What constrains a database?

4:00 Indexing Techniques

5:30 Storage Engines - Row-Store

9:00 Columnar Databases

12:00 Graph use cases

16:00 Graph Storage Engines

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