DATA-STRUCTURES-BASICS5 MIN READ
Sort graph choices by job
Classify graph tasks by representation or traversal strategy.
Place each graph job into the choice that best fits it. Edge list Adjacency list Adjacency matrix or pair index BFS traversal Import a nightly file of source-target relationships Run a batch audit over every relationship exactly once Show all accounts reachable directly from one user Expand neighbors repeatedly in a sparse delegation graph Answer many questions of the form: does edge A -> B exist? Represent a dense graph where most vertex pairs are connected Find the fewest-hop path in an unweighted network Visit nodes in increasing distance layers from a starting node
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