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This week, I had the opportunity to interview Matthias Sieber, Senior Software Engineer at MediaHound, at our offices in San Mateo, California. Here's what we talked about in this week's 5-Minute Interview. Q: Can you talk to me about your most interesting Neo4j project? Matthias Sieber: I... read more

Relational databases (RDBMS) were conceived to digitize paper forms and automate well-structured business processes, and they are still extremely relevant today. But, many companies are choosing to explore other database options to solve some of their biggest challenges. Why? The Shortcomings... read more

Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Chris Morrison and Julien Mazerolle of Trace One, delivered this presentation on how Trace One uses Neo4j to increase food supply chain transparency. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to register for GraphConnect Europe, check... read more

I spend a lot of my free time answering Stack Overflow questions about Cypher, Neo4j’s graph query language. Cypher is an intuitive, ASCII-art-driven language that allows you to query your property graph by specifying patterns of nodes and relationships. While Cypher is the reason many... read more

In some regards, graph databases are like the next generation of relational databases, but with first class support for “relationships,” or those implicit connections indicated via foreign keys in traditional relational databases. Each node (entity or attribute) in a native graph property... read more

For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Matthew Harris, the Co-Founder and CTO of Patheer. Matthew is also a member of the GraphDB Boston Meetup group. Q: How do you guys use Neo4j at Patheer? Matthew: At Patheer, we’re trying to help people stay up to date and relevant in... read more