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This is an article written by someone who never heard of Graph Databases. The publish year was 2011, so that makes sense. They were not as well known 6 years ago.

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Can you elaborate on why graph databases are important in this context?

>>A necessary condition for the network effect to take off in the noSQL database market is the availability of a common abstract mathematical data model and an associated query language for noSQL that removes product differentiation at the logical level and instead shifts competition to the physical and operational level.

A common abstract mathematical data model is Graphs.

The associated query language is any of the declarative graph query languages (see openCypher for example @ http://www.opencypher.org/ ).

Great answer, thanks.

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