Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Nov 18
5 mins read
Scaling laws may plateau, yet the promise of GenAI is undiminished. Engineers everywhere have been busy figuring out what works and how to make it useful. GraphRAG, a combination of knowledge graphs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), has evolved into a range of techniques, with a growing... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jun 17
7 mins read
Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) with knowledge graphs is a recent wave in generative AI (GenAI), showing up in research papers, orchestration frameworks, and conferences. This rising interest in using knowledge graphs for memory, explainability, and expanded data representation... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Feb 05, 2022
4 mins read
When Google launched the Knowledge Graph in 2012 (yes, it really has been 10 years – we had to double check as well) everybody got to experience the power of connected data points. Today, many projects use that very concept to link data together in order to gain better insights, as well as... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jan 22, 2022
4 mins read
Surely the most exciting part of Web3 is that it brings us closer to Web4j, which will be entirely based on property graphs. Past decentralization, a great thing about graphs is that they have no center, or equally that every connected member is a center (has centrality). You are a center. The... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jan 01, 2022
3 mins read
Happy New Year 2022! In this week's episode, we want to take a look back at a few highlights of 2021, featuring our updated Neo4j GraphAcademy, where we constantly add new courses. Check it out! Also, 2021 has been a year with exciting releases: Neo4j 4.4 – The latest release of Neo4j... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Dec 25, 2021
3 mins read
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor, commonly called the North Star. Well-known for centuries as a stable point in the sky, we could say that Polaris has high graph centrality, that countless observers from Ptolemy to Thomas the Tank Engine have affected... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Dec 18, 2021
4 mins read
Winter Bloom helps you create musical instruments by plugging together individual electronic components – an audio signal graph! Our own Neo4j Bloom creates beautiful visual graphs. This week, we celebrate a winter release of Bloom 2.0. And you can use it - free of charge - in Neo4j... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Dec 04, 2021
4 mins read
The brilliant Advent of Code is like a classic text-based adventure game mixed with small coding puzzles, solvable with any programming language. How many can you complete with pure Cypher? This week we have lots to celebrate: The launch of Neo4j 4.4 With massive gains in data processing... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Feb 05, 2021
3 mins read
Create graphs with gram then share them on ObservableHQ, or use d3-gram to render graphs to SVG anywhere.Gram makes writing graphs as easy as (a)-->(b)<--(c). But then what? Well, graphs are eminently visual data structures. Naturally, we could visualize them with d3.js.Gram: a data... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jan 25, 2021
3 mins read
Gram is a textual format for data. We have CSV for tables, JSON for documents, and gram for data graphs.Use gram when becomes (a)-->(b)<--(c).Why Another Data Format?Anything worth talking about is worth inventing a language for. — probably not L.... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jun 17, 2020
25 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Andreas Kolleger at GraphConnect New York in September 2018. Presentation Summary Andreas Kollegger, the product manager for Neo4j Bloom delves into the meat of what makes graph visualization so interesting. The multifaceted answer includes... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Apr 15, 2016
2 mins read
Neo4j 3.0 is coming soon, and we would like to ask you today for your feedback on our first release candidate. For your review Neo4j 3.0-RC1 previews some significant new features which we'd love for you to review. "Bolt" binary protocol with official drivers: .NET, Python, Java and... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jan 26, 2016
2 mins read
We're very excited about the new Neo4j OGM (Object Graph Mapper) 2.0 release, published this week. This new release introduces some exciting new features, performance improvements and bug fixes that many of you have been asking for. So, without further ado, let's take a look at what's new in... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Dec 24, 2015
4 mins read
Happy holidays, graphistas! We're pleased to give you a freshly packaged milestone release, Neo4j 3.0.0-M02, just in time for tinkering over the holiday weekend. Disclaimer: Milestone releases like this one are for development and experimentation only as not all features are in their finalized... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Dec 04, 2015
4 mins read
Happy Friday, Neo4j alpha-developers! Good news: The first milestone release of Neo4j 3.0 is now ready for testing. Download Neo4j 3.0.0-M01 here. Disclaimer: Milestone releases like this one are for development and experimentation only as not all features are in their finalized form. Click here... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Sep 23, 2015
3 mins read
Great news for all those Neo4j alpha-developers out there: The third (and final) milestone release of Neo4j 2.3 is now ready for download! Get your copy of Neo4j 2.3.0-M03 here. Quick clarification: Milestone releases like this one are for development and experimentation only, and not all... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jul 23, 2014
< 1 min read
Neo4j 2.1.0 Milestone 2 is a beta release, marking progress towards revision of core functionality. While some features show promise this release is not recommended for production use. Notable changes: Kernel - new low-level locks API, and the Forseti lock manager HA & Clustering -... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
Jun 12, 2014
3 mins read
Neo4j 2.1.2 is a patch release recommended for all users, available for immediate download. Release Notes Notable changes in Neo4j 2.1.2: Cypher uses indexes for resolving WHERE clauses which use the IN operator Resolves a recovery issue, where multiple forced-restarts in a row, without... read more
Andreas Kollegger, Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j
May 29, 2014
4 mins read
It’s an exciting time for Neo4j users and, of course, the Neo4j team as we’re releasing the 2.1 version of Neo4j! You’ve probably already seen the amazing strides we’ve taken when releasing our 2.0 version at the start of the year, and Neo4j 2.1 continues to improve the user experience... read more