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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

You're reading from  SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476195
Pages 816 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to SQL Server 2017 2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers 3. SQL Server Tools 4. Transact-SQL and Database Engine Enhancements 5. JSON Support in SQL Server 6. Stretch Database 7. Temporal Tables 8. Tightening Security 9. Query Store 10. Columnstore Indexes 11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP 12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2017 13. Supporting R in SQL Server 14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R 15. Introducing Python 16. Graph Database 17. Containers and SQL on Linux 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Chapter 16. Graph Database

In the recent years, the data landscape has changed significantly: massively structured and unstructured data is being generated from various sources. Applications and services are being developed with agile methodologies more frequently than ever, the data changes being fast and significant. Scalability requirements are also very important. Relational database management systems are not designed to handle all these challenges. Therefore, enterprises use NoSQL database solutions, which are more appropriate for new data requirements.

Graph databases belong to the NoSQL databases family. They have only existed for a few years and are used for storing and querying highly connected data, usually connected with many-to-many relations. SQL Server 2017 offers graph database capabilities in a feature called SQL Graph.

This chapter is divided into the following three sections:

  • Introduction to graph theory and graph databases
  • SQL Graph in SQL Server 2017
  • Limitations in the current...
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