Michael Hunger has been passionate about software development for a very long time. For the last few years he has been working on the open source Neo4j graph database filling many roles.
As caretaker of the Neo4j community and ecosystem he especially loves to work with graph-related projects, users and contributors. As a developer, Michael enjoys many aspects of programming languages, learning new things every day, participating in exciting and ambitious open source projects and contributing and writing software related books and articles.
Hello my fellow graph fans, We’re almost at winter solstice and all the other celebrations commencing these weeks. To give you some material to have fun with during that time, this weeks issue is pretty packed. In this week’s video from the NODES 2019 conference, Gerrit... read more
I just returned from Venice, where enjoyed not only the weather and food but … Had an amazing time in Venice, Italy to celebrate the 15th anniversary of our friends and partners from @AgileLARUS. Thanks a lot @inserpio for the invite. Enjoyed presenting on graph algorithms and with... read more
As the Director of the Developer Relations engineering team, I couldn't be more proud of the things we have achieved over the last few years. Our focus was to build integrations, tools and libraries that extend the Neo4j Graph Platform and make it easier for all users to successfully use the... read more
If you don't know anything about MariaDB – and you're reading a database blog remember – then you're the exception. In 2018, MariaDB was the second-fastest-growing relational database (behind Postgres) and is a leading example of commercially supported open source innovation in the database... read more
Like every year, the fall conference season is in full swing when we're already preparing for the next batch of conferences in spring 2019. We’re happy to announce that the graph processing and graph database developer room was accepted again for FOSDEM 2019. Like every year we expect a packed... read more
We are very excited to announce our brand new Neo4j Community site! We created this place to allow our community to ask and answer technical questions, share and discover open source projects with each other, contribute content and collaborate on ideas. Technical Help Forum This is where... read more
Just in time for the Neo4j 3.4.0 release, we also pushed out two versions of APOC - 3.3.0.3 and 3.4.0.1. You can download them from GitHub, Maven or most conveniently with a single click in Neo4j Desktop. Please note that the "self-upgrade" process in Neo4j... read more
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. As my colleague Mark Needham is still on his well earned vacation, I’m filling in this week. Featured Community Member: Martin Preusse Martin Preusse... read more
Hello everyone, We, the developer relations team at Neo4j, are always looking for new ways to support the Neo4j developer community. We are starting a Medium publication around Neo4j-related topics to not only share lessons learned as well as tips and tricks, but also to encourage every one of... read more
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. As my colleague Mark Needham is on his well earned vacation, I’m filling in this week. Next week we plan to do something different. Stay... read more
In diesem Jahr wird Neo4j in gleich 6 Vorträgen und Workshops von 7 Neo4j-Kennern beim JavaLand in Brühl vertreten sein. Es gibt also viel Gelegenheit, die Vielseitigkeit von Graphdatenbanken an praktischen Beispielen kennenzulernen und dem anwesenden Experten all Eure Fragen zu... read more
The last release of APOC library was just before GraphConnect New York, and in the meantime quite a lot of new features made their way into our little standard library. We also crossed 500 GitHub stars, thanks everyone for giving us a nod! What's New in the Latest APOC Release Image:... read more
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. Featured Community Member: Markus Harrer This week’s featured community member is Markus Harrer, Software Development Analyst at Sparda Bank... read more
This post introduces what's been happening in Spring Data Neo4j recently. You will learn about the new features and the simplification of the programming model, find out what has changed under the cover, such as smarter querying for better performance. You will also read about the upcoming... read more
This blog post was originally published on Medium by Michael Hunger and is used with permission. Graphcool released it’s GraphQL command-line tools two days ago, so I thought it would be nice to see how well they work, especially with our Neo4j GraphQL backend. And here’s the good news :... read more
This blog post was originally published on Medium by Michael Hunger and is used with permission. Creating a Neo4j graph database (and more) based on Game of Thrones (and A Song of Ice and Fire) data. As season 7 is progressing, interest around Game of Thrones data is flaring up again. There... read more
I am very happy to announce the first public release of the Neo4j graph algorithms library. You can use these graph algorithms on your connected data to gain new insights more easily within Neo4j. You can use these graph analytics to improve results from your graph data, for example by focusing... read more
It’s summertime, but that doesn’t mean we’re less active building cool stuff for you to use with Neo4j. If you haven’t heard of APOC yet – dubbed "Awesome Procedures On Cypher" – it’s a Swiss Army knife of useful utilities that make your life with Neo4j much easier. Besides the... read more
Today launches the seventh season of "Game of Thrones" with many exciting developments awaiting the audience. Even if we might never see the last two books Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring published, the TV series producers march ahead and have created their version of events in... read more
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. This weeks edition is not brought to you by Mark, because he’s busy taking care of his extremely cute, newborn daughter. Congratulations and all the best... read more
Long before the publication of the Panama Papers investigation in April last year – which was mostly recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, among other accolades – data journalism had had to deal with vast amounts of highly connected information. Traditionally investigative journalism was a... read more
Since version 3.0 you can extend Neo4j with user defined procedures, functions and going forward also aggregate functions. About a year ago during the 3.0 milestone phase, I started to work on the first set of graph refactoring procedures. These evolved into the APOC library, which at... read more
Update: The Google Doc source and structure changed, we updated the import statements and queries on the trumpworld-graph GitHub repository. I came across this tweet by Sanchez Castro which I am more than happy to support. Hey @neo4j please do this once again!!! #panamapapers #neo4j... read more
Just like last year, we're happy that the graph processing and graph database developer room at FOSDEM was approved again. Check out all the details here, including information about submissions: http://graphdevroom.org. If you're interested in presenting, please submit your talks as soon as... read more
If you haven’t seen the first part of this series, make sure to check out the first article to get an introduction to Neo4j’s user defined procedures and check out our APOC procedure library. New APOC Release First of all I want to announce that we just released APOC version 3.0.4.1. You... read more