Graph databases are now one of the core technologies of companies dealing with highly connected data.
Business graphs, social graphs, knowledge graphs, interest graphs and media graphs are frequently in the (technology) news. And for a reason. The graph model represents a very flexible way of handling relationships in your data. And graph databases provide fast and efficient storage, retrieval and querying for it.
Neo4j, the most popular graph database, has proven that ability to deal with massive amount of high connected data in many use-cases.