Exploring Temporality in Databases
Approaches to version-controlling your data - a conceptual overview.
May 4, 2021
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Introducing foxx-tracer
An OpenTracing Implementation for ArangoDB's Foxx Microservices
Aug 17, 2020RecallGraph Presented @ Open Source Directions
A webinar recording of RecallGraph, where I discuss its roadmap, adoption and development efforts. Apologies in advance for the occasional drop in quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A953O3hT1Os
Jul 28, 2020RecallGraph v1 Released
RecallGraph is a versioned-graph data store - it retains all changes that its data (vertices and edges) have gone through to reach their current state. It supports point-in-time graph traversals, letting the user query any past state of the graph jus...
Jul 28, 2020
RecallGraph Presented at ArangoDB Online Meetup
A webinar recording of RecallGraph, presented at ArangoDB Online Meetup, as part of their Community Pioneers Initiative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP2KDQ_kL4I
Jul 28, 2020Introducing CivicGraph
A Versioning Data Store for Time-Variant Graph Data.
Jan 31, 2020A Closer Look at Delta Arithmetic
In their 1996 paper published in ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Ghandeharizadeh et al. defined a formal algebra around Deltas (the encoded difference between any two states of a system) in a relational database. Their definition is actually ge...
Jun 30, 2019Exploring Graph Database Versioning Approaches
Building on my previous post, where I emphasize the need for versioned graph databases, I explore a few of the possible approaches to designing one. This is not a ground-up approach that delves into the design of the database engine itself, but rathe...
Jun 27, 2019The Case for Versioned Graph Databases
Why Graph Databases? Graph databases have become ubiquitous over the years due to their incredible representational and querying capabilities, when it comes to highly interconnected data. Wherever data has an inherent networked structure, graph datab...
Jun 27, 2019