This Week in Neo4j – Getting Started with Neo4j Desktop and Browser, Graphileon Personal Edition, Intuitive Detections Research with Neo4j

This week’s featured community member is opens in new tabBrian Underwood, Platform Engineer at Fishbrain.

He has been instrumental for the Ruby community, taking the maintainer role for the widely used neo4jrb driver in 201x. Since then he has developed a lot of new features in the driver, APIs and Cypher DSL, as well as implementing a version of the driver that uses the Bolt protocol.

Brian worked for the Developer Relations team while he was traveling the world with his family for two years. During that time Brian used every opportunity to present about Neo4j and Ruby in the countries he was visiting. He also built the GraphGist portal, created a Ruby and Neo4j video course, and wrote many examples and articles. He blogs about a wide variety of topics at opens in new tabblog.brian-underwood.codes.

After that he worked for a startup using Neo4j, and a few months ago moved to Sweden where he now works as Platform Engineer at Fishbrain.

Unfortunately Brian is not working with Neo4j anymore at his current job and is asking everyone for help to find a new maintainer for the neo4jrb driver library. So if you’re using Neo4j with Ruby and would like to help/contribute please send us an email to devrel@neo4j.com. It doesn’t have to be a single person doing the work – a team can share the load.

On behalf of the Neo4j community, thanks for all your work Brian!

opens in new tabElaine Rosenberg, our new Principal Curriculum Developer, has started a new YouTube series of videos showing people how to get up and running with Neo4j.

In the first video Elaine shows how to download the Neo4j Desktop application, create your first project, and gives a brief tour of the database view.

In the second video we learn how to use the Neo4j browser. Elaine covers some of the most commonly used commands, shows how to load the sample movies graph, and writes Cypher queries against the dataset.

There will be more of these videos in the coming weeks, so don’t forget to subscribe to the playlist.

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This week Graphileon announced the beta release of opens in new tabGraphileon Personal Edition 2.0.0, a stand-alone edition of their graphy application builder and graph manager. It’s available on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Elsewhere, GraphStory are expanding their offering, and now offer Enterprise Neo4j in 15 Google Cloud Platform regions, with support recently added for the Mumbai, Netherlands, and London regions.

opens in new tabMichael Hunger has written up his experience loading graph data into Object Graph Mappers, such as Spring Data Neo4j and Neo4j-OGM. He used the same lessons while building the neo4j-graphql integration.

In the post Michael explains the different ways we can map graph data – from variable length path queries to pattern comprehensions and map projections – and shows how to use these different approaches for data loading.

Read the blog post

What’s happening next week in the world of graph databases?

My favourite tweet this week was by opens in new tabJoe Depeau:

Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too.

That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend!

Cheers, Mark