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> Not the entire point. Relational databases have schemas that are not well suited to graph structures, and SQL is also a barrier.

The latest research disagrees with your statement:

http://cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper20.pdf

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I think the following is a better references for putting unstructured property graphs or RDF into relational schemas.

SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store; SIGMOD 2015.

Previous hackernews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11101013

It doesn't. That paper proposes a data layer called Grail on top of an RDBMS, which is exactly what I described in my comment. An RDBMS may perform well at storing graph-like structures, but is not ergonomically suited to be used directly by humans for that purpose.

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