This Week in Neo4j: NODES, Knowledge Graph, Graph Analytics, MCP and more

Senior Developer Marketing Manager

May 10, 2025

3 min read

Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your fix for news from the world of graph databases!

NODES 2025 is back on November 6 – our global, 24-hour graph dev conference spotlighting real-world apps, intelligent systems and all things Neo4j. The Call for Papers is open through June 15, so take the chance to share your code, models and graph-powered insights with the community!

In this episode, we have gathered some tips for your talk submission to NODES. Fittingly to May the Fourth, we have a Star Wars Themed Knowledge Graph Generator this week. We also look at the recently announced Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics and use Cursor with Neo4j MCP.

Happy Graphing,

Alexander Erdl

COMING UP!

Livestream: Neo4j Live: MCP for LLM Agents, APIs & Graphs on May 15 & Going Meta: S02E09 on May 22
Conferences: Find us at Langchain Interrupt, San Francisco on May 13-15, Google Cloud Summit, Paris & Google Cloud Summit, Madrid on May 22
Meetup: Meet us in Boston, US on May 13, London, UK on May 15, San Francisco, US on May 21 & Amsterdam, NL on May 22
All Neo4j Events: Webinars and More
GraphSummit Series: Transform Your Enterprise with Graph and GenAI – Next Stop: Singapore on May 20

FEATURED COMMUNITY MEMBER: Vasilije Markovic

Vasilije is connecting psychology, graphs and data engineering.

Connect with him on LinkedIn.

In a livestream “Neo4j Live: Cognitive Sciences and Dynamic GraphRAG”, he talked about the latest advancements in combining graphs and vector stores to create semantic layers, enhancing the in-context learning pipeline and shaping the future of AI tooling.

NODES: 7 Tips for Submitting Your NODES 2025 Talk

Yolande Poirier offers seven actionable tips to help you craft a compelling talk proposal for NODES 2025. The submission deadline is June 15, and this post enables you to structure your abstract effectively and choose a title that grabs attention.

KNOWLEDGE GRAPH: May the Nodes Be with You

Joseph Petty delves into integrating vector search and knowledge graphs within Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The article illustrates how combining these technologies can enhance structured and unstructured data retrieval, leading to more accurate and contextually relevant responses from LLMs.

GRAPH ANALYTICS: Introducing Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics: Scalable, Easy-to-Deploy Graph Analytics for Any Data Source

Dan McGrath introduces Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics, a new serverless offering that lets you run graph algorithms and generate ML-ready features directly from any data source – no ETL, custom queries or graph expertise required.

MCP: Cursor + Neo4j MCP

Jason Koo combines the Cursor AI coding assistant in this video with Neo4j MCP (Model Context Protocol). He demonstrates how to set up the configuration file, query the database, and generate Cypher scripts to manipulate graph data.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING

GraphAcademy: In our newest course “Using Neo4j with Java” you will learn how to integrate Neo4j into your Java projects
Get to Know Graph: Level up your graph skills with webinars packed with practical insights to help you build powerful apps
Learn on Your Schedule: Go deeper into graph technology on Neo4j’s On-Demand webinar library
New Webinar: Explainable AI With Knowledge Graphs and RAG – AMER, EMEA, Asia Pacific

POST OF THE WEEK: Ali Mustafa

Next we have Raajas Sode talking about Exploring Agentic workflows using Langgraph at @github GitTogether Mumbai;#github #gittogether pic.twitter.com/Rq3ProvAyS

— Ali Mustufa (@ialimustufa) April 26, 2025