Interpreting Relational Schema to Graphs — Praveena Fernandes, Neo4j

18 May, 2017



With all of the Neo4j success stories, more and more people are eager to migrate from relational databases (RDBMS) to graph. But the number one question is — how do we do it?

Over the last few months, I've developed an in-house tool to facilitate this process. Neo4j is a schema-optional database, which can be somewhat intimidating for people who are used to using schemas to structure data. But at its core, an entity-relationship diagram is a meta-graph, which allows us to apply a few simple rules to transform normalised relational schemas into a reasonable graph model.

Attend this talk to learn how to use the Neo4j ETL tool to import a MySQL database into Neo4j by applying a few simple rules. We'll also cover lessons learned about schemas and common patterns along the way.

Praveena Fernandes, Engineer, Neo4j

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