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Does it make sense to use a graph database (Neo4j) for a diagramming app?

I am developing a diagramming application and want to optimize operations with the Nodes and Relations of the diagram. Currently, I am using a relational database with tables for diagrams and nodes. Each node entity has a field children containing the IDs of its child nodes, which forms the relationships. This architecture seems far from ideal to me, so I am curious whether I would gain a performance boost in operations with the diagram elements by using a graph database. I am referring to operations such as retrieving all nodes for a specific diagram, modifying nodes, relationships, etc.

Would it be bad to use two different database engines for location history?

I’m building an analytics and storage platform for entity location history. I’m a bit hung up on the database engine, though. On the one hand a graph database fits really well for the entity relationships. On the other hand, queries around the time based dimension (e.g. entity history and the history of a defined area) seem to fit better in an RDBMS.

How does I/O work for large graph databases?

I should preface this by saying that I’m mostly a front end web developer, trained as a musician, but over the past few years I’ve been getting more and more into computer science.