An Introduction to Graph Data Management

R. Angles and C. Gutierrez, ‘An Introduction to Graph Data Management’, in Graph Data Management: Fundamental Issues and Recent Developments, G. Fletcher, J. Hidders, and J. L. Larriba-Pey, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018, pp. 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96193-4_1

Graph data management concerns the research and development of powerful technologies for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of graph data. This chapter presents an overview about the foundations and systems for graph data management. Specifically, we present a historical overview of the area, studied graph database models, characterized essential graph-oriented queries, reviewed graph query languages, and explore the features of current graph data management systems (i.e. graph databases and graph-processing frameworks).