A Review of VelocityDB NOSQL Graph Database

摘要

In today’s dynamic and agile business environment, digital world is growing in terms of volume, variety and velocity commonly referred as Big Data. In past few years, the visualization analytics has gain a lot of momentum. Continuous endeavors are made to provide database model for graph based data. For a conventional relational data model to handle such massive and complex data sets, it can prove to be cumbersome and costly. Instead a hybrid NOSQL database can be helpful for the same. Amongst, the various NOSQL databases offered in the market, this paper will focus on Graph Databases namely VelocityDB. This article will focus on the review of VelocityDB which is a hybrid of Object and Graph database known as VelocityGraph. With the release of its latest version 5.1 on February 22, 2016, VelocityDB stands as an excellent choice amongst all Graph DB. Founded by Mats Persson in 2011, VelocityDB and VelocityGraph are based on C# .NET framework, and most importantly it’s an open source database.