April shares the first two letters with APOC, our community driven procedure and function library for Neo4j’s Cypher. That’s why I thought it would be a good idea to use the APOC spring release to kick off a of blossom of articles and demos on how to use APOC in really cool... read more
"Due to native graph storage, the Neo4j queries run really quickly, which is amazing," said Andrés Natanael Soria, Senior Software Engineer at Cablevisión Fibertel. The company uses a broadband network to provide cable television and internet services to customers throughout Argentina, and... read more
Today is a great day for .NET developers who use Neo4j: The Neo4jClient is back in action! The Past For those in the know – the main .NET client for Neo4j is Neo4jClient. It was developed by Tatham Oddie for the last few years and had reached a nice stable point. But recently, Tatham has... read more
Summary Ian Robinson introduces tools and techniques for building a system around a graph engine, experiment with graph data, and using it in an application. Bio Ian Robinson works on research and development for future versions of the Neo4j graph database. Harbouring a long-held... read more
During the matches in Brazil, we’ve been building a giant graph database to explore the tournament in an entirely different way. The use of data in sports reporting is nothing new. However, the data that is used quite often is. Metrics like possession, shots on goal, goal differences and so on,... read more
Graph Databases and Software Metrics & Analysis This is the first in a series of blog posts that discuss the usage of a graph database like Neo4j to store, compute and visualize a variety of software metrics and other types of software analytics (method call hierarchies, transitive clojure,... read more
Gmail Email analysis with Neo4j – and spreadsheets A bunch of different graphistas have pointed out to me in recent months that there is something funny about Graphs and email. Specifically, about graphs and email analysis. From my work in previous years at security companies, I know that Email... read more
This is a guest blog by Amit Gupta, following a discussion on a Neo4j discussion forum.Get introduced to your friend of friendsThere was this interesting problem that I had encountered, where I had to find (in a facebook like graph network) a list of all my first degree friends (friends) who could... read more
Happy 2013! It looks like another great year is in the forecast for graphs. This is the first of two blog posts, looking back at what has happened this past year, and then ahead to 2013. Growth in Graphs & the Neo4j Community 2012 was an amazing year for graph databases, Neo4j, and the... read more
For the "Lunch and Learn around Neo4j" with Andreas Kollegger at NOSQL NOW, we wanted to use a dataset that was easy to understand and interesting enough for attendees of the conference. This is why we chose to use only the NOSQL NOW conference program from that day as the dataset.... read more
Thanks again everyone for attending the Intro to Spring Data Neo4j webinar. We hope you enjoyed the presentation and learned a lot. We answered all of your questions below. Feel free to use the listed resources to learn more or to discuss your open questions with us. Spring Data Neo4j is a... read more
As the last of the summer sunshine leaves us and the northern winter approaches, at Neo HQ we've been hunkered around our laptops for warmth and been busy packing in all manner of new functionality for the forthcoming Neo4j 1.5 release. In our last milestone release before our GA, we're opening the... read more
Yesterday, I had the great honor to be invited to present Graph Databases and data-local processing at the EDBT in Uppsala. Thanks a lot to Pierre Sennellart, Anastasia Ailamaki and Tore Risch for inviting me to this great event and to Erik Zeitler for a good student singing session!Overall, it was... read more
Ever since we first started working on Neo4j (crazy enough it was more than 10 years ago!), we've had a relentless focus on robustness and performance. While this work never stops, I think it's fair to say that Neo4j 1.1 is an incredibly robust and highly performant graph database. But as we... read more
