Dungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases

Explore the world of graph databases through the lens of a Dungeons & Dragons adventure in this engaging conference talk from NDC London 2022. Learn how to model complex relationships between rooms, corridors, monsters, and treasures using nodes and edges in a graph database. Discover the advantages of this approach over traditional relational databases, including schema-free flexibility and intuitive querying with the Cypher language. Watch as the speaker demonstrates these concepts using a real-time, procedurally generated random dungeon, showcasing how graph databases can optimize your dungeon crawl and enhance your software development toolkit. Gain insights into modeling data relationships, writing efficient queries, and evolving your database structure as new elements are encountered.

Dungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases - Guy Royse - NDC London 2022