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> or if your average developer/architect isn’t finding enough use cases that can’t be done with more traditional RDBMS

Graph DBs are not magic. If you drill down into their query/execution plans it becomes very obvious that there isn't really a technical distinction between a traditional RDBMs and a Graph DB.

If you need graph traversal you can just as well use a table with edge-like indexing and recursive CTEs, and in the future with implementations of SQL/PGQ you can also do that in a "nice" Cypher-like syntax.




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