Exploring Graph Database Versioning Approaches
Update (2026): the thinking in this post is now carried forward in Minigraf Building on my previous post, where I emphasize the need for versioned graph databases, I explore a few of the possible appr
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Temporal Databases
This series gathers all posts related to temporal databases and concepts in database temporality.
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The Case for Versioned Graph Databases
Update (2026): the thinking in this post is now carried forward in Minigraf Why Graph Databases? Graph databases have become ubiquitous over the years due to their incredible representational and quer
A 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...
Introducing CivicGraph
A Versioning Data Store for Time-Variant Graph Data.
RecallGraph v1 Released
Update (2026): the thinking in this post is now carried forward in Minigraf RecallGraph is a versioned-graph data store - it retains all changes that its data (vertices and edges) have gone through to
RecallGraph Presented @ Open Source Directions
Update (2026): the thinking in this post is now carried forward in Minigraf A webinar recording of RecallGraph, where I discuss its roadmap, adoption and development efforts. Apologies in advance for