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I can still remember the winter months of 2020, clear as day. Neo4j was on a fantastic trajectory already, and growing like crazy. We were organizing our "GraphTour" events throughout Europe, we were launching the long-awaited 4.0 version of Neo4j's core database product, and we were having a... read more

Neo4j has long been recognized as the world's leading graph database, and it is rapidly expanding as a true platform for enterprise graph applications. For more videos like this one, check out upcoming and on-demand video content in the Neo4j Webinar library. Now is a better time than... read more

5 Big Small Things I Love About Neo4j 2.2< /h2> Originally posted on Rik's Blog  Today, Neo4j 2.2 was released. It was a good day - and everyone at Neo was really excited. This was a big release. It was not an easy one, as we redid large parts of the plumbing for Neo4j - and still... read more

Originally posted on Rik's Blog The 2.2 Meta-graph Last week I shared this great little gem of a Cypher query that would allow you to very quickly to take a view at the Model of an existing Neo4j database. This was the query that we ran to generate the Meta-graph:   // generate the... read more

Originally posted on the Bruggen Blog Over the past couple of days, I have had multiple occasions where I had to explain a graph model to an audience. Often times I would end up drawing stuff on paper/whiteboard (still my favourite, tbh), sometimes I would revert back Arrows, but more and more I... read more

Prototyping a Graph Database Written by Rik Van Bruggen, Originally posted on his blog Prototyping a Graph Database Last night we did a great meetup in Amsterdam using a new, untested format. We had about 25-30 people attending, to try and prototype a graph database quickly and... read more

Written by Rik Van Bruggen. Originally posted on his blog. Graphs for HR Analytics Recently, I had the pleasure of doing a talk at the Brussels Data Science meetup. Some really cool people there, with interesting things to say. My talk was about how graph databases like Neo4j can contribute... read more

Written by Rik Van Bruggen, originally posted on Bruggen Blog. I had the opportunity to do a short webinar where I tried to articulate why I think that a graph database like Neo4j really can contribute to a better Enterprise Architecture. I'd like to take some time to explain that here on the... read more

Using Load CSV to Import data from Google Spreadsheet My colleague Rickard recently did a great graphgist on Elite:Dangerous trading. When I read his post, the first thing that struck me was that he had found a great clever way to import data into Neo4j. And since I have been into data... read more

As you may know by now, I like beer. A lot. Why else would I keep writing and talking about it? But there’s more to life than sweet beverages, and one of the things that I have been doing for as long as I can remember is orienteering. I have been practicing the sport in Belgium since 1984 –... read more

I'm sure that many of you are very technical people – very knowledgeable about all things Java, Dr. Who and the like – but I in case you've ever met me, you would probably notice that I am not technical. And I don’t want to be. I love technology, but have never had the talent,... read more

For the past couple of months, and even more so since the beer post, people have been asking me a question that I have been struggling to answer myself for quite some time: What is so nice about the graphs? What can you do with a graph database that you could not, or only at great pains, do in... read more

I make no excuses: My name is Rik van Bruggen, and I am a salesperson. I think it is one of the finest and nicest professions in the world, and I love what I do. I love it specifically, because I get to sell great, awesome, fantastic products really – and I get to work with fantastic... read more