Neo4j Blog

For just over a year I’ve been obsessed on-and-off with a project ever since I stayed in the town of Skibbereen, Ireland. Taking data from the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses, I hoped I would be able to find a way to reliably link resident records from the two together to identify the same... read more

It’s All about Performance Ultimately it’s the performance of your company as a whole which determines whether you remain in business. It was with this thought in mind that we began a major project to improve the data management performance of Sensis, working out of Melbourne,... read more

For many of us, it feels like software development has well and thoroughly moved into the NoSQL database era. However, recent studies suggest that adoption is still as low as 20%. Personally, I joined the NoSQL movement in 2008 when I took a position with database vendor MarkLogic. Since that... read more

Introduction A graph database is not only a simple way to store connected data, it is also a powerful tool to manage dynamic relationships between data. Since relationships are natively implemented in Neo4j, we can use them as a simple way to identify a group of connected nodes. But it is... read more

Even in Neo4j with its high performance graph traversals, there are always queries that could and should be run faster – especially if your data is highly connected and if global pattern matches make even a single query account for many millions or billions of paths. For this article,... read more

Unlike prototypical unit testing which is designed to focus on small units of isolated code, integration testing is a type of testing which is typically designed to test interactions between two or more interconnected parts of a software system. A common area where integration testing yields... read more