GraphDB: Mapping your network

Just a quick post today, but something I hope you find especially helpful. It’s actually a follow-up to a post I wrote last week on corporate “customer” relationship management. A colleague of mine read my entry and promptly and generously introduced me to a technology I wish I would’ve known about sooner.

It’s called Graph Database. A quick Google search or gander on YouTube can tell you more than I can at this point. In an effort to make you actually do those things, graph databases give you a more intuitive view of relationships between the “nodes” in a collection of data. You can graph relationships, view properties and I’m guessing do some other cool stuff. I’ll be diving into this Udemy course on graph databases (using a “free” product called Neo4J) and will report back on what I learn. I put “free” in quotes because I registered my email and they told me the 30-day clock started ticking. I’m guessing after that they either need me to buy a license or give them more personal data they can add to my digital twin.

Now I’m curious to know what implications blockchain will have on stuff like this when we will supposedly “own” more of our data. That’s a thought for another time.