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Chapter 1: Introduction to Graph Data Modeling

Models of the World

What is a Graph Data Model?

Why is Graph Data Modeling Important?

Data, Information, and Knowledge

The Knowledge Triangle

From Sensor Data To Concepts

Models and Algorithms

Case Study: Page Rank

A story about Google and the Page Rank algorithm developed at Stanford by Larry Page.

Relational

Analytical

Key Value Stores

Document Models

The ISO Graph Query Language (GQL)

Graph Models and LLMs

The Future of Graph Databases

Conventions Used In This Book

We use title case for names of nodes and all uppercase with underscores for the names of edges. We use lower case for attributes.

This convention allows us to quickly see the data type when reading queries.

Callouts and Annotations

In order to enhance the readability of this book we use the following callouts and annotations:

Note

Sample note text.

Warning

Prompt

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