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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:59:05+00:00

I know this is a somewhat subjective question but I want to throw it

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I know this is a somewhat subjective question but I want to throw it out there anyway because if there is some insight that I’ve missed, asking this question will save me (and hopefully others) a great deal of searching 🙂

Basically, what is the best type of database for when you have a number of items interlinked. For example:

A->B->C->D->E->F->G->H->I

And you want to be able to quickly find the shortest path (or the number of paths ideally) between A and I?

I would normally just use a relational database for this, but I’m not sure a MapReduce style database is any better and then I wondered if there was a type of database I hadn’t considered altogether…

As always, all help gratefully received 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is exactly the sort of thing neo4j is designed for. It’s a graph database that provides operations for doing graph traversal and other common operations.

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