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GraphSummit Europe 2024: Actionable Insights From Industry Leaders and Innovators
Sep 18 2 mins read
Join us in London on October 16 and 17 for GraphSummit Europe 2024! With a focus on graph technology, connected data, and GenAI, this year’s event features presentations on the most complex data challenges modern organizations face — and how solving them can unlock new growth... read more
The Database Model Showdown: An RDBMS vs. Graph Comparison
Neo4j Staff Aug 03, 2015 4 mins read
The recent proliferation of database technologies is a testament to the fact that relational databases are not the right tool for every job. Of course, they have their uses: Tabular data with a consistent structure and fixed schema is a perfect fit for a relational database (RDBMS). But if... read more
Uncovering Open Source Community Stories with Neo4j [Community Post]
Jul 30, 2015 4 mins read
Every dataset has a story to tell -- we just need the right tools to find it. At Graph Story, we believe that graph databases are one of the best tools for finding the story in your data. Because we are also active members of several open source communities, we wanted to find interesting... read more
Cypher: LOAD JSON from URL AS Data
Jul 29, 2015 7 mins read
Update: Much of this got much easier today with user defined procedures, like apoc.load.json, which add this kind of capability to Cypher directly. Neo4j’s query language Cypher supports loading data from CSV directly but not from JSON files or URLs. Almost every site offers some kind... read more
Visualize Your Social Data Quickly and Easily with Neo4j [Community Post]
Jul 28, 2015 3 mins read
Connecting your social media accounts with Neo4j is perhaps one of the most exciting ways to visualize your social data. After all, it’s a great experience to look at the relationships between your liked pages on Facebook or your entire Twitter history and see them all as an interactive... read more
5 Sure Signs It’s Time to Give Up Your Relational Database
Jul 27, 2015 4 mins read
Despite advances in computing, faster processors and high-speed networks, the performance of relational database applications is becoming slower and slower. These relational database performance problems are happening because of the rapid growth not only in the volume and velocity of data, but... read more
Neo4j & the REST API from Java When Authentication Is Required [Community Post]
Jul 23, 2015 2 mins read
Based on "The Neo4j v2.3.0-M01 Manual" manual under 7.1 How to use the REST API from Java, I've developed the same example program using Jersey library (2.19). The goal of this example is to use the REST API from Java when auth is required. The Jersey Client API reuses many aspects of the... read more
