Graph Databases: The Story-tellers of the Database World

The big rub on the first generation of graph databases was that although RDF triple stores were great at storing the simple sentence, they had a hard time with the adverbs, adjectives and clarifying phrases of your data story. If I wanted to store'John is a carpenter since 2001' or'John from Alberta Canada is a carpenter liked by 702 people', the syntax of old-school triple stores had a more tedious, but not impossible way of handling it. It involved creating extra nodes that were confusing to some and a process called reification. Until about a year ago, labeled property graphs (LPG) were better at color and detail than RDF, having a more intuitive syntax for clarifying adverbs, adjectives, and phrases. That was, of course, until recently.