Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data
Episode of Hanselminutes, a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin.
Scott talks via Skype to Haixun Wang at Microsoft Research Asia about Trinity: a distributed graph database and computing platform. What is a GraphDB? How is it different from a traditional Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database?
The interview is quite entertaining and leaving the booster comments aside, is quite informative.
Relational database vendors may be surprised to hear their products described as good for “small data.” In their defense (as if they needed one), I would note there is a lot of money to be made in “small data.”
For further information see the Tinity project homepage at Microsoft Research.
Trinity code is available only for internal release, 🙁 , but you can look at the Trinity Manual.