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You're reading this because of a napkin. It was the year 2000, and I was on a flight to Mumbai. Peter, Johan and I had been building an enterprise content management system (ECM) but kept running up against the challenge of using an RDBMS for querying connected data. That's when an idea... read more

Data is everywhere. News, blog posts, emails, videos and chats are just a few examples of the multiple streams of data we encounter on a daily basis. The majority of these streams contain textual data – written language – containing countless facts, observations, perspectives and insights... read more

Neo4j is perfect for storing and processing large amounts of connected data. For example, in web analytics, where click-paths and custom events get logged, it is easy to get that data into Neo4j. Once the data is in the graph database, complex queries may be executed that help both site... read more

GraphConnect is almost here, which means it’s time for our annual GraphHack Hackathon! Join other graph hackers for a fun day of building applications featuring Neo4j's great integrations with other popular technologies (a.k.a. buzzwords). This year’s event will be hosted at the Stack... 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 week we have recommendations with Personalized PageRank, Solving the bucket-filling problem, Deep Text Understanding, a new GraphQL book, Thinking in Graph... read more

The shocking revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), who released both the Panama and Paradise Papers, as well as the West Africa Leaks, have shown that aggressive tax avoidance and money laundering are a widespread and worldwide problem. Money... read more