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You're reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge of using an RDBMS for querying connected data. That's when an idea struck. I grabbed a napkin and quickly sketched the first property graph model. Together, we used the... Read more →

Data is everywhere. News, blog posts, emails, videos and chats are just a few examples of the multiple streams of data we encounter on a daily basis. The majority of these streams contain textual data – written language – containing countless facts, observations, perspectives and insights that could make or break your business. Photo source The data, in its native form, is... Read more →

Neo4j is perfect for storing and processing large amounts of connected data. For example, in web analytics, where click-paths and custom events get logged, it is easy to get that data into Neo4j. Once the data is in the graph database, complex queries may be executed that help both site administrators and site owners get a good understanding of how their users and visitors use the website or... Read more →

GraphConnect is almost here, which means it’s time for our annual GraphHack Hackathon! Join other graph hackers for a fun day of building applications featuring Neo4j's great integrations with other popular technologies (a.k.a. buzzwords). This year’s event will be hosted at the Stack Overflow office (28th floor) in New York City all day on Saturday, September 22nd. All Your GraphHack... Read more →

Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. This week we have recommendations with Personalized PageRank, Solving the bucket-filling problem, Deep Text Understanding, a new GraphQL book, Thinking in Graph for security, and more! Featured Community Member: Scott Sosna This week’s featured... Read more →

You already know there are many exciting reasons you should attend GraphConnect 2018 – and, of course, we've got you properly jazzed on this year's roster of must-see presenters (including our two most recently announced keynote presenters). But the best reason of all to buy the ticket and take the ride? A bottom-to-top plentiful and packed agenda of all the keynotes, presentations and... Read more →