AGE
- Stands for Advanced Graph Extension.
- It's a Bitnine Company project.
- It's funded by APACHE, named Apache AGE.
- It's a PostgreSQL extension.
But what makes it different from the already existing Graph databases ?
- It works on the top of PostgreSQL not a fork from it.
- It helps to achieve a multimodal behavior, on an already existing relational database.
- Multimodal here means ( Relational + Graph ) models.
- This multimodal behavior on top of an already existing relational database, help to get rid of the cost of migration that usually happens in case we have a relational database and want to operate a graph model to make use of its flexible features.
- So Bitnine company come up with this solution, that gives you the ability to make use of the graph model features on top of an already existing relational database ( for now PostgreSQL )
- it also provides single storage for both models ( relational and graph ), which means no extra space is required
- it allows hybrid queries, which is Cypher inside SQL, or a SQL inside Cypher ( not until now )
- it has also AGE viewer application ( sub-project ), it provides data visualization and exploration
links:
https://age.apache.org/
https://github.com/apache/age
https://github.com/apache/age-viewer
Try it now !
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