India, Feb. 25 -- Siddhant Agarwal, Developer Relations Lead for APAC at Neo4j, unravels the helices of modern databases- combing through strands like open source environments, LLMs, HTAP, vector data, multi-modal evolution, AI, and a new world 'with-but-more-than-just relational databases'. Let's follow this thread.

Over the last decade, the database landscape has moved from 'one-size-fits-all relational' to a rich ecosystem of specialised data platforms, and three forces are largely driving this shift: open source, AI/GenAI/LLMs, and the limitations of traditional relational thinking.

Open-source movements have lowered the barrier to experimentation. Teams can try graph, time-series, columnar/OLAP, vector, and document databases witho...