Accelerate Your Career with This Neo4j Course by Edureka [Community Post]
March 31, 2016 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.] The Evolution of the Neo4j Graph Database In the past, the data industry stored information in… Read more →
Explore: ACID • command-line interface • cypher • data modeling • Edureka • graph database • neo4j course • nosql • Oracle • relational database
8 Solid Tips for Succeeding with Neo4j
March 30, 2016 12 mins read
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Chris Leishman – Executive Manager at Neo Technology – delivered this presentation on how to achieve optimal performance with Neo4j. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to register for GraphConnect Europe,… Read more →
Explore: cartesian product • cypher • data model • Domain-Driven Design • Gatling • graph database • graphconnect • neo4j • REST API • sql
DB-Engines, Informix and Neo4j: An Origins Story
March 29, 2016 3 mins read
A funny thing happened four-ish weeks ago. On March 1st, the database industry monitor DB-Engines published their usual monthly ranking report for the world’s most popular database management systems. For the first time, Neo4j was listed in the top 20.… Read more →
Explore: CMS • content management system • database management system • DB Engines • graph database • informix • neo4j • rdbms • relational database • silverstream
Geospatial Indexing US Congressional Districts with Neo4j-spatial
March 28, 2016 8 mins read
In this post I will show you how we can use geospatial indexing with Neo4j. We will extend the legis-graph dataset (a graph of US Congress), adding US Congressional districts to the graph. We will use neo4j-spatial, a plugin for… Read more →
Explore: Congressional districts • data journalism • data model • geospatial indexing • graph traversal • mapbox • neo4j spatial • PyShp • r-tree • WKT format
The 5-Minute Interview: Lauren Winter, CTO of Gallium Artistic Services
March 25, 2016 6 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I chatted with Lauren Winter, the CTO at Gallium Artistic Services in Berkeley, California. I got to catch up with Lauren at the San Francisco Graph Database Meetup group. Here’s what she had to say:… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • conceptnet • cypher • data model • graph database • ios app • neo4j • relational database • REST API • Will Wright
An Introduction to Cypher for the SQL Developer
March 24, 2016 2 mins read
Traditionally, if you wanted to query a dataset the only option was to learn SQL and query your relational database or data warehouse. But over the last 5-10 years we’ve seen the emergence of NoSQL databases which have brought with… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data warehouse • database query language • MySQL • neo4j • nosql database • relational database • schema migration • sql • SQL developer
Using Neo4j to Take Us to the Stars
March 23, 2016 11 mins read
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Caleb Jones – Software Engineer and Blogger at AllThingsGraphed.com – delivered this presentation on how to route interstellar voyages using Neo4j. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to register for GraphConnect… Read more →
Explore: 3D graph • betweenness centrality • Dijkstra's algorithm • graphconnect • neo4j • Network Analysis • network component • organized complexity • seti • warren weaver
A Community for Developers: Building devRant with Neo4j [Community Post]
March 22, 2016 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.] As a software engineer, I’ve always enjoyed discussing technology with like-minded devs who could offer alternate… Read more →
Explore: app performance • collaborative filtering • data engineering • devRant • minimum viable product • MySQL • neo4j • rapid prototyping • relational database • startup development
RDBMS & Graphs: Drivers for Connecting to a Graph Database
March 21, 2016 7 mins read
Up to this point in this blog series, we’ve covered graph databases in general, only using Neo4j when examples were required. However, when it comes to connecting your application to a graph database, specifics are essential. In this RDBMS &… Read more →
Explore: cypher • graph database • jdbc • language driver • Neo4j Browser • rdbms • relational database • REST API • spring data neo4j • sql