Listen to Amy Hodler interview Semih Salihoğlu, CEO of Kuzu and professor at the University of Waterloo, to learn about the fascinating history of graphs through the lens of database management systems. In this podcast, Semih walks us through the evolution of systems: from the first database system, IDS, to modern property graph databases, such as Neo4j and Kùzu. You’ll learn about the connections between the birth of the World Wide Web and document-based datasets and document stores, such as MongoDB. Amy and Semish also discuss the flexibility of RDF as a reasoning system and ties to the semantic web.In this quick history of graph databases, you’ll discover the roots of features that we see in modern graph database management systems and gain an appreciation for the collective innovations. Semih Salihoğlu Video Series https://www.youtube.com/@KuzuDBFurther Reading on the Early History https://tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/VeritableBucketOfFactsSIGMOD.pdf 2002 Interview with Charlie Bachman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVsNqFEkB0

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