Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Oct 23, 2020
< 1 min read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Content & Media Associate, Allison Wu, unearthed our Graphs in Life Sciences video, which highlights real-world success stories when combining a graph... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Jul 17, 2020
2 mins read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, Staff Writer Zaw Win Htet, showcased a short, 10-minute video that expertly breaks down what a graph database is. This week, I felt like going... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Apr 24, 2020
< 1 min read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, broke down unlimited scalability with Neo4j 4.0, including vertical and horizontal scalability as well as database... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Feb 21, 2020
< 1 min read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Editorial Assistant, Zaw Win Htet, shined light on our... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Dec 23, 2019
5 mins read
Oh hai. My name is Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor here at Neo4j. One of my main duties is to keep up with the daily blog slog, and let me tell you: The 2019 graph database space kept me busy. So yes, what are the best Neo4j blogs of this past year? Our bylines cast a wide net... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Dec 20, 2019
5 mins read
"When a person leaves his job, we need to remove all the access he had. But in 90% of these cases, the person still has access after they leave the company," said Manish Jain, Chief Solutions Architect & Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Databases for NTT Data Services. In this week's five-minute... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Nov 22, 2019
< 1 min read
"We're the world's number one Neo4j consultancy, which we're proud of and have worked very hard at," said Kyle McNamara, CEO, Americas, at GraphAware. In this week's five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour DC 2019), we talk with... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Nov 15, 2019
< 1 min read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkly Sasaki, highlights the NODES 2019 keynote given by Emil Eifrem and also points you to more than 50 other valuable talks and... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Nov 08, 2019
4 mins read
"If I take information from 50 of my relational databases, I can build an interesting graph and learn what makes some kids do better than others," said Forrest Swope, Manager of Data Operations, University of Virginia. In this week's five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour DC 2019), we... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Oct 04, 2019
3 mins read
"I've noticed that queries run a lot faster than in my SQL databases, but the biggest concept is being able to see connections across the information that you wouldn't normally see," said David Meza, Chief Knowledge Architect at Johnson Space Center in Houston. In this week's five-minute... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Sep 20, 2019
3 mins read
"I got a fairly big data set, around 2 gigabytes, and I created the same kind of relationships in SQL Server and in Neo4j. When I got the results back, that was a wow moment,” said Dee Pandian, Deputy Director of CyForce at Jacobs Engineering. In this week's five-minute interview... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Sep 13, 2019
< 1 min read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our EIC, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, pointed us to the newly released "The Laundromat," a film about the Panama Papers. Have you seen it yet? This week,... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Sep 09, 2019
4 mins read
Like a complex system grid or an air-traffic-control map, a graph database is represented as a network of nodes and connections called a labeled property graph. The nodes, which appear as circles or squares, represent entities such as people, products, companies or orders. In Neo4j, the... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Sep 06, 2019
6 mins read
"The feedback we receive from participants is that together we accomplish an impressive amount of work in just a week, even on projects that they've been thinking about, working on, and POC'ing for years,” said Alessandro Svensson, head of Innovation Labs at Neo4j. In this week's five-minute... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Sep 02, 2019
4 mins read
The growth of enterprise networks and the explosion of connected devices has turned Identity and Access Management (IAM) into one of the top concerns of IT organizations across the globe. IAM is often implemented using directory-service solutions provided by operating-system or enterprise... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Aug 02, 2019
2 mins read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our content chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, highlighted an intro video on deploying the Neo4j graph database on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which means more... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Jul 26, 2019
3 mins read
"Graphs have gone mainstream," said Dr. David Bader, School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Tech. When David Bader started working with graphs 25 years ago, it was a niche that required designing specific algorithms and even specific computers. Now the Neo4j graph database is... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Jun 28, 2019
3 mins read
"The use cases for graph databases are far more numerous than people imagined early on," said Pascal Desmarets, founder and CEO of Hackolade. NoSQL databases are schemaless, so data modeling isn’t necessary – at least in theory. In practice, Hackolade saw a niche in the market to provide a... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Jun 21, 2019
< 1 min read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, Bryce Merkl Sasaki put the spotlight on Neo4j's Chief Scientist Jim Webber, who is a graph database technical guru (a thing I just made up, but not untrue!).... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
May 31, 2019
3 mins read
"Graph databases are the natural solution to the problems we face in compliance," said Julian Schibberges, Managing Director of the Bernstein Group. Tough compliance problems require a look not just at particular people or businesses but at the larger network around them. Consulting with... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
May 03, 2019
2 mins read
”Graph databases haven't even begun to reach their full potential," said Christian Tsambikakis, CEO of KERBEROS Compliance. Compliance with anti-money laundering regulations is a challenge, and companies in industries like sports-betting and real estate face strict auditing and reporting... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Apr 30, 2019
4 mins read
It takes approximately one work day (or 8 hours) to complete training – and be proficient in – common administration tasks for a production deployment of Neo4j Enterprise Edition. This training course was originally based on Neo4j 3.3, and so, got a much-needed update that better reflects... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Apr 12, 2019
2 mins read
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, sent a raven and featured a video showcasing the power of graph analytics with a Game of Thrones dataset. (Eeeee,... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Apr 05, 2019
3 mins read
"Data is meaningless if you don't know how to connect it," said Ann Grubbs, Chief Data Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space. Lockheed Martin Space builds satellites, following the entire product lifecycle, from proposals to engineering and design to procurement and manufacturing, right through... read more
Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j
Mar 22, 2019
2 mins read
"When I saw Neo4j the first time, I was overwhelmed by how easy it is to connect different types of data," said Dr. Alexander Jarasch, Head of Data and Knowledge Management at the German Center for Diabetes Research. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide. The German Center for... read more