sdsl-lite VS asami

Succinct Data Structures [0] [1]. It encompass many different underlying data structure types but the overarching idea is that you want small data size while still keeping "big O" run time.

In other words, data structures that effectively reach a 'practical' entropy lower bound while still keeping asymptotic run time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct_data_structure

[1] https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite

The book mentioned in another comment is probably the best way to go. But FYI, documentation for some data structures include references. An SDSL-lite example can be found here. And its equivalent in SDSL-RS can be found here.

Unlike some other commenters, I agree that graph models are usually a better fit for most data than relational models. There's been some interesting work in recent years developing this idea: in the Clojure world there's Datomic, XTDB, and a host of competitors, all of which build on work from Semantic Web/SPARQL/triplestores and logic programming. Some are even intended to be used as primary datastores: they support some amount of schema and constraints, have well-defined consistency and ACID guarantees, etc. This makes them unlike graph databases like Neo4J and others, which fill an architectural role more like Elasticsearch as a read-optimization tool. Here's an interesting talk making a case for triple-based databases.

Despite the documentation that exists, I've heard many people who have been confused about how to query Datomic, Datascript, Asami, or other graph databases. So I've made an attempt at explaining it https://github.com/threatgrid/asami/wiki/Introduction

The first Graph implementation for Asami was a simple in-memory data structure, described in my ClojureD talk. The code for this appears in asami.index. This file started much smaller (as referenced above), but has since expanded with the needs extended functionality, such as transactions, and transitive closure operations.