Shaping Up a Fitness Program Recommendation Engine & More [Community Post]
March 17, 2016 4 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 new year has come and gone, along with the first quarter, and likely all our… Read more →
Explore: asthma • beachbody • fitness program • graph database • neo4j • nutritional supplements • p90x • personalized recommendations • Recommendation Engine • weight loss
Goodbye Anders
March 16, 2016 3 mins read
Dear Reader, In many open source communities, people join and leave, but only seldomly is someone ripped from our midst. With great sadness we have to accept, that our friend and colleague Anders Nawroth passed away last weekend. All our… Read more →
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The Graph Is Strong with This One: GraphGist Challenge Winners!
March 15, 2016 2 mins read
Last December, we announced the Neo4j Winter GraphGist Challenge. We invited our global graphista community to document and explain how various types of data could be modeled in a graph, using the GraphGist tool. We had dozens of fantastic entries,… Read more →
Explore: drug repurposing • graphgist • hetnet • investigative journalism • lego • neo4j • Santa Claus • shakespeare • Star Wars • wikipedia
3 RDBMS & Graph Database Deployment Strategies (Polyglot & More)
March 14, 2016 8 mins read
Whether you’re ready to move your entire legacy RDBMS into a graph database, you’re syncing databases for polyglot persistence or you’re just conducting a brief proof of concept, at some point you’ll want to bring a graph database into your… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data import • database deployment • deployment strategy • graph database • graph model • Load CSV • polyglot persistence • rdbms • relational database
The 5-Minute Interview: Rachel Lader, Software Engineer at Clippr
March 11, 2016 5 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I caught up with Rachel Lader, a Software Engineer at Apple. Here’s what we talked about: Editor’s Note: Rachel’s work with Clippr is not in any way affiliated with her position at Apple, Inc. as… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • apple • cypher • express.js • machine learning • naive bayes • neo4j • node.js • orm • sql
SoundCloud Tag Recommendations using Neo4j [Community Post]
March 10, 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.] Introduction Discovery, especially non-text discovery, is hard. When looking for a some new music to listen… Read more →
Explore: conceptnet • game of drones • graph database • neo4j • semantic network • soundcloud • soundcloud api • tag recommendation
Graph Compute with Neo4j: Built-in Algorithms, Spark & Extensions
March 9, 2016 11 mins read
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Ryan Boyd – Developer Relations at Neo Technology – delivered this presentation on how to perform various graph compute functions within the Neo4j ecosystem. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to… Read more →
Explore: dijkstra algorithm • Docker • Graph Algorithm • graph compute • graphconnect • mazerunner • neo4j • OLTP • PageRank • spark
From the Neo4j Community: February 2016
March 8, 2016 3 mins read
In the Neo4j community last month, love was in the air. That love expressed itself as more nodes than ever in our community content. From articles and podcasts to GraphGists and other projects, our global graph of community members keeps… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data pipeline • elasticsearch • fraud detection • graph database • graph visualization • Master Data Management • metadata management • Neo4j Community • real-time recommendations
RDBMS & Graphs: SQL vs. Cypher Query Languages
March 7, 2016 10 mins read
When it comes to a database query language, linguistic efficiency matters. Querying relational databases is easy with SQL. As a declarative query language, SQL allows both for easy ad hoc querying in a database tool as well as specifying use-case… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data modeling • declarative query language • graph database • graph query language • query language • rdbms • relational database • sql • sql queries