Comparison of Relational Databases and Graph Databases

Question

Can someone explain to me the advantages and disadvantages for a relation database such as MySQL compared to a graph database such as Neo4j?

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Answer 1

Relational Databases are much more efficient in storing tabular data. Despite the word “relational” in their name, relational databases are much less effective at storing or expressing relationships between stored data elements. The term 'relational' in relational databases relates more to relating columns within a table, not relating information in different tables. Relationships between columns exist to support set operations. So as Database grows in millions or billions records it becomes extremely slow to retrieve data from relational databases.

Unlike a relational database, a graph database is structured entirely around data relationships. Graph databases treat relationships not as a schema structure but as data, like other values. It is very fast to retrieve data from graph databases. From a relational database standpoint, you could think of this as pre-materializing JOINs once at insertion time instead of computing them for every query. Because the data is structured entirely around data relationships, real-time query performance can be achieved no matter how large or connected the dataset gets. The graph databases take more storage space compared to relational database.