Emerging graph database benchmarks are already helping to overcome these hurdles. For example, TigerGraph recently ... to start task forces in graph schema languages and graph query languages.

The timing of ... Facebook's Social Graph, and traditional database vendors such as Oracle and IBM are getting into the Graph act, too. Microsoft Research's "Trinity" project is another example ...

Under the hood, a social network like LinkedIn is nothing more than a huge NoSQL graph database, using a schema-less approach ... that return details of, for example, where someone is in the ...