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Yu Xu is founder and CEO of TigerGraph, provider of a leading graph analytics platform. Xu received his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California San Diego. He is an expert in big data and parallel database systems and has 26 patents in parallel data management and optimization.
The graph database stands as one of the biggest innovations to emerge from the NoSQL database boom that shook the industry over a decade ago. Graph databases were developed to derive insights from huge quantities of interconnected data. They store relationships between data objects within the objects themselves, enabling blazingly fast analysis that is nearly impossible to achieve by other means.