Systems and methods for visualizing and manipulating graph databases

A graph database manipulation system, comprising:

• a graph database server system comprising:
• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory configured to store a first graph database manipulation application, and a graph database;
• wherein the graph database comprises:
• a set of nodes;
• and
• a set of edges, wherein an edge in a set of edges defines a relationship between a first node in the set of nodes and a second node in the set of nodes and an edge comprises:
• edge weight metadata;
• and
• edge display metadata, wherein the edge display metadata describes the spatial relationship between the first node and the second node;
• and
• wherein the first graph database manipulation application configures the at least one processor to:
• determine a source node within the set of nodes;
• locate a set of related nodes based on the source node and the set of edges, where a related node in the set of related nodes has an edge in the set of edges indicating a relationship between the related node and the source node;
• recursively locate a set of sub-related nodes based on the set of related nodes and the set of edges, where a sub-related node in the set of sub-related nodes has an edge in the set of edges indicating a relationship between a related node in the set of related nodes and the sub-related node;
• generate a representation of the set of related nodes from the perspective of the source node, where the representation of a related node in the subset of the set of related nodes is based on the edge weight metadata and the edge display metadata from the edge defining the relationship between the particular related node and the source node;
• and
• a graph manipulation device comprising:
• a processor;
• a display device;
• and
• a memory configured to store a second graph database manipulation application;
• wherein the second graph database manipulation application configures the processor to:
• obtain the information describing representation of the set of related nodes from the perspective source node;
• and
• display a visualization of the representation of the set of related nodes from the perspective source node using the display device.