Oracle Database 23c as Graph Database-SQL Property Graph for network style querying

Lucas Jellema
7 min readApr 18, 2023

I bet you are used to relational data structures that you query using SQL. And so do I. And there is nothing in terms of data that a good SQL query cannot answer. OK, the query can become quite long — with inline expressions and multiple joins — but it can answer almost any question without fail. While that is true, there are different perspectives on data possible. Rather than the tables and foreign keys/join condition view that we tend to take from the relational (pure SQL) world, there is a view on data that…

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Lucas Jellema

Lucas Jellema is CTO and IT architect at Conclusion, The Netherlands. He is Oracle ACE Director, one time JavaOne Rockstar and programmer