INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research & Training Centre 8th Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post Bangalore-560 059 DRTC Seminar- 7 2014 Graph Database: a tool for knowledge representation ABSTRACT It has been an established fact that the relational databases have been dominating large and small scale industries in terms of data storage and retrieval. However, lately they have been criticised of not been able to serve in terms of scalability, flexibility and performance, especially in the connected networks. Graph databases which not only target the entities in the tables but also sets relationship among the entities using nodes and elaborates the related property that have been deployed. Graph databases are used in bioinformatics, website like structures, building ontologies and in social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. In this seminar, features and functionalities of graph databases, Neo4j as a case study shall be discussed. Speaker: Manasa Rath Date:20.11.2014. Time:2 p.m. Venue: DRTC, ISI Bangalore. All are cordially invited. Seminar Coordinator Biswanath Dutta -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.