Dual Indexing Neo4j and Solr for a Unified Platform
By Enzo
March 18, 2021 11 mins read
Explore how Thomson Reuters utilized RDF and graph models to help customers monitor influence and risk in multiple target populations.
Keywords: indexing • neo4j • RDF • search • Solr • use case
Why Leading Telecoms Use Neo4j: The 5-Minute Interview with Jesús Barrasa, Global Director of Telecoms at Neo4j
By David Penick
March 20, 2020 5 mins read
In this week’s five-minute interview with Jesús Barrasa (conducted at GraphTour NYC 2019), we discuss how graph technology helps the telecoms world.
Keywords: 5-minute interview • blog • data integration • data model • graph database • Internet of Things • IoT • neo4j • RDF • telecom
This Week in Neo4j – Topic Extraction with Graphileon, Neo4j 3.5 FTS Deep Dive, Neo4j for Very Large Scale Systems
By Mark Needham
January 19, 2019 5 mins read
Welcome to the 3rd edition of This Week in Neo4j for 2019. We’ve got a variety of different things for you this week. Christophe Willemsen has written an excellent deep dive into the Full-Text Search feature released in Neo4j 3.5,… Read more →
Keywords: full-text search • graph algorithms • graphileon • machine learning • Marvel Universe • owl • RDF • spring data neo4j • topic extraction • twin4j
Graph Databases for Beginners: Other Graph Technologies
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 11, 2018 8 mins read
Back in the day (when Prussia was still a thing), Königsberg must have been a really boring place. That’s because the definition of fun in Königsberg was to walk around the city’s seven bridges and find a path that only… Read more →
Keywords: data model • graph database • graph technology • hypergraph • native graph database • nosql • nosql database • property graph • RDF • Triple Store
Imperative vs. Declarative Query Languages: What’s the Difference?
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 21, 2018 5 mins read
The evolution of programming languages has grown in parallel with the evolution of computing itself, with new languages being created with each new advance and paradigm shift. After all, if language shapes how we view reality, then changes in computing… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • database query language • declarative language • declarative query language • gremlin • imperative language • imperative query language • query language • sparql • sql
Meet SemSpect: A Different Approach to Graph Visualization [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 12, 2018 5 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Understanding large graphs is challenging. Sure, a proper Cypher query can retrieve valuable information. But how… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • Data Visualization • graph database • graph visualization • icij • neo4j • OWL 2 RL • paradise papers • RDF
Neo4j: A Reasonable RDF Graph Database & Reasoning Engine [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 27, 2018 7 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] It is widely known that Neo4j is able to load and write RDF. Until now, RDF… Read more →
Keywords: Graph Analytics • labeled property graph • owl • OWL 2 RL • RDF • RDF Schema • reasoning engine • resource description framework • sparql • Triple Store
Neo4j Life Sciences & Healthcare Workshop – Proceedings from Berlin
By Michael Hunger
September 29, 2017 9 mins read
Often invisible to the people outside of the field, life science researchers have been quietly embracing graph databases instead of the traditional triple and relational stores. On June 21, we invited a group of life science and healthcare researchers and… Read more →
Keywords: Bioinformatics • computational biology • cypher • drug development • Healthcare • intermine • Knowledge Graph • Life Sciences • network biology • systems biology
RDF Triple Stores vs. Labeled Property Graphs: What’s the Difference?
By Rachel Howard
August 18, 2017 19 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Jesús Barrasa at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary Resource Description Framework (RDF) triple stores and labeled property graphs both provide ways to explore and graphically depict connected data. But the… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • Connected Data • cypher • graphconnect • index free adjacency • owl • property graph • RDF • semantic web • sparql
The Emergence of the Enterprise DataFabric
By Rachel Howard
June 1, 2017 9 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Mark Kvamme and Clark Richey at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary Enterprises are faced with a variety of challenges when it comes to managing data, largely due to the disparate… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • cypher • data science • DataFabric • graph technology • graphconnect • nosql • r • RDF • relational database
From the Neo4j Community: November 2016
By Rachel Howard
December 28, 2016 2 mins read
2016 was a big year for graphs, and the proof is in all of the awesome projects created by the Neo4j community. As we look forward to what 2017 has for the world of graph databases, let’s take a look… Read more →
Keywords: apache zeppelin • APOC • bolt • data virtualization • fraud analysis • graph database • nasa • Neo4j Community • Oracle • RDF
FOSDEM 2017: Join Us in the Graph Developer Room!
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 3, 2016 4 mins read
Just like last year, we’re happy that the graph processing and graph database developer room at FOSDEM was approved again. Check out all the details here, including information about submissions: https://graphdevroom.org. If you’re interested in presenting, please submit your talks… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • FOSDEM • gis • graph database • graph processing • graph query language • graph technology • graph visualization • gremlin • Internet of Things
From the Neo4j Community: July 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 9, 2016 4 mins read
The Neo4j community has been very active this summer – that much is obvious. What you might not have noticed is how many new integrations and drivers have been published for new programming languages in the last month. Highlights include:… Read more →
Keywords: elasticsearch • Elixir • Golang • grails • Neo4j Community • PHP • Pokémon • Recommendation Engine • spark • Tour de France
The 5-Minute Interview: Dan Murphy, Senior Metadata DevOps at the Financial Times
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 1, 2016 4 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Dan Murphy, the Senior Developer for Semantic Metadata and DevOps at the Financial Times. I chatted with Dan at GraphConnect Europe after his great presentation on How Go and Neo4j enabled… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • bolt • DevOps • Financial Times • go • graphconnect • metadata • RDF triple store • Recommendation Engine • semantic metadata
Semantic PDM: Using a Graph Data Model at Schleich
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 30, 2016 13 mins read
What we’re going to be talking about today is how the German toy manufacturer Schleich uses a graph data model to track all the elements related to toy production. I’ve been an engineer in Germany for the last 25 years,… Read more →
Keywords: consumer safety • Enterprise Resource Planning • graph data model • graphconnect • micro applications • Oracle • product data management • product development • SAP • schleich
From Good to Graph: Choosing the Right Database
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 4, 2016 13 mins read
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Clark Richey – Chief Technology Officer at FactGem – delivered this presentation on his database decision path toward Neo4j. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and GraphConnect Europe, check out graphconnect.com.. I’m… Read more →
Keywords: Data Visualization • document database • graph • graph database • graphconnect • nosql database • RDF • relational database • resource description framework • XML database
Semantic Product Management at Schleich, or Why Flexibility Makes the Difference
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 21, 2016 5 mins read
After a recent presentation, I was asked “What can you do with Structr that you can’t with other software?” As we were short on time, I just replied with “You can do anything, but in much less time.” I wish… Read more →
Keywords: agile • data model • database architecture • owl • product management • RDF • schleich • software development • Structr • system architecture
From the Neo4j Community: Best of May 2014
By Adam Herzog
June 1, 2014 2 mins read
The Neo4j community is awesome! From blog posts to videos to GraphGists, graphistas around the world regularly contribute some graph-tastic stuff. Below is a list of some of our favorites from the past month: ARTICLES Neo4j + Spring Data –… Read more →
Keywords: data modeling • data-driven applications • graph database • Neo4j Community • neo4j integration • Network Management • primefaces • RDF • rest • Spring Data
The state of LDBC in January 2013
By Neo4j Staff
February 6, 2013 5 mins read
Hi all! A few months ago we announced that Neo Technology (Neo) had joined the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC), a three-year EU-funded research project aimed at creating a comprehensive suite of performance benchmarks for graph databases. The goal of… Read more →
Keywords: benchmark design • FOSDEM • graph data management • graph database benchmark • ldbc • Neo4j Community • SIB • social media recommendation • sparql queries