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Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part II pp 3–13Cite as

Comparison of Relational, Document and Graph Databases in the Context of the Web Application Development

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The paper presents the comparison study of relational, document and graph databases. A social networking web application supporting all three types of database was developed. The analysis consists in data models analysis and performance tests. Data models analysis discusses requirements meeting and difficulties of different implementation. Performance tests present results of obtained for five different tasks. Each of analyzed solutions revealed their strengths and weaknesses. The analysis showed that the graph model the most accurately models the reality. Document database queries occur to be the simplest in use. In terms of performance, PostgreSQL occurred to be the best.

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  1. Lublin University of Poland, Lublin, Poland

    Małgorzata Plechawska-Wójcik & Damian Rykowski

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wrocław, Poland

    Adam Grzech

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek Borzemski

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wrocław, Poland

    Jerzy Świątek

  4. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wrocław, Poland

    Zofia Wilimowska

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Plechawska-Wójcik, M., Rykowski, D. (2016). Comparison of Relational, Document and Graph Databases in the Context of the Web Application Development. In: Grzech, A., Borzemski, L., Świątek, J., Wilimowska, Z. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part II. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28561-0_1

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