Neo4j: From Graph Database to Graph Platform
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 24, 2017 11 mins read
Today at GraphConnect New York, Neo4j has announced our transformation from the provider of a graph database into the creator of a graph platform. We are making this change to address the evolving needs of customers in their deployment of… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • Cypher for Apache Spark • data integration • graph algorithms • Graph Analytics • graph visualization • native graph database • neo4j • Neo4j Desktop • Neo4j ETL
A Big Step Forward: Spring Data Neo4j 5.0 Release
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 16, 2017 9 mins read
This post introduces what’s been happening in Spring Data Neo4j recently. You will learn about the new features and the simplification of the programming model, find out what has changed under the cover, such as smarter querying for better performance.… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • graphconnect • java • microservices • pivotal • spring • spring boot • spring cloud • Spring Data • spring data neo4j
Cypher: Write Fast and Furious
By Rachel Howard
August 11, 2017 6 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Christophe Willemsen at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary In this presentation, Christophe Willemsen covers a variety of do-and-don’t tips to help your Cypher queries run faster than ever in Neo4j.… Read more →
Keywords: .NET • bolt • cypher • graphconnect • java • javascript • neo4j • object mapper • PHP • python
Hello, World: Neo4j, Inc.
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 27, 2017 2 mins read
Effective today, Neo Technology is officially changing its name to Neo4j, Inc. Why We’re Changing Our Company Name By becoming Neo4j, Inc. we now accept that it is how the world has always known us, and we’re updating our legal… Read more →
Keywords: emil eifrem • graph database • graph technology • JVM • neo4j • Neo4j Inc. • open source
Graph Technology for Enterprise Master Data Management (MDM)
By Rachel Howard
July 14, 2017 9 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Aaron Wallace at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary Modern enterprises need to have a full, 360-view of their customers drive their bottom line. This requires the integration of data from… Read more →
Keywords: customer information management • data quality • fraud detection • graphconnect • Knowledge Graph • Master Data Management • MDM • metadata management • Pitney Bowes • single customer view
Neo4j JDBC Driver 3.0.3 & 3.1.0 Released
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 14, 2017 7 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Click here to skip straight to the JDBC driver announcement. During his opening keynote address, Emil… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • bolt • Couchbase • etl • graphconnect • JDBC driver • JSON API • MongoDB • nosql database • spark
The Emergence of the Enterprise DataFabric
By Rachel Howard
June 1, 2017 9 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Mark Kvamme and Clark Richey at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary Enterprises are faced with a variety of challenges when it comes to managing data, largely due to the disparate… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • cypher • data science • DataFabric • graph technology • graphconnect • nosql • r • RDF • relational database
The 5-Minute Interview: Aaron Wallace, Product Manager at Pitney Bowes
By Rachel Howard
May 26, 2017 4 mins read
“We knew we couldn’t come to market with the same old solution and be competitive – so we decided to explore a differentiated solution,” said Aaron Wallace, Product Manager at Pitney Bowes. As a software company prepared to enter the… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • AML • customer information management • data lineage • data quality • financial services • Master Data Management • metadata management • Pitney Bowes • Retail
Neo4j 3.2 GA Release: Enterprise Scale, Native Performance & More
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 11, 2017 17 mins read
We are proud to announce the general availability release of Neo4j 3.2. This release marks an expansion in global scale, enterprise refinement and all-around performance. It signals that the next generation of graph-powered Internet applications will span the globe. To… Read more →
Keywords: AWS • Causal Clustering • cluster management • cypher • Kerberos • microsoft azure • multi-data center • native graph database • Neo4j 3.2 • Neo4j Browser
Neo4j Object Mapping with GORM, Groovy and Spring Boot [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 19, 2017 4 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Mapping object models to the Neo4j graph in languages such as Java and Groovy may be… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • cypher • GORM • grails • groovy • java • javascript • object mapping • open source • spring boot
JCypher: A Java Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for Cypher
By Rachel Howard
April 12, 2017 7 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Wolfgang Schützelhofer at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: An Introduction to JCypher Domain Mapping Executing domain queries using JCypher The future of JCypher – What… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • domain mapping • graph data model • graph database • graph traversal • graphconnect • java • Java API • Java DSL • relational database
This Week in Neo4j – 8 April 2017
By Mark Needham
April 8, 2017 5 mins read
Welcome to this week in Neo4j, where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph database in the last seven days. This week we look at how to create a Twitter clone using Neo4j, the Neo4j data… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • D3.js • data science • docker • Gephi • jqassistant • Jupyter • malware analysis • PageRank
This Week in Neo4j – 25 March 2017
By Mark Needham
March 25, 2017 5 mins read
Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we collect the most interesting things that have happened in the world of graph databases over the last 7 days. If you’ve got something that you’d like to see featured in a future… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • arrows • cypher • data import • data journalism • DC/OS • graph visualization • python • twin4j • twitter
Pushing the Evolution of Software Analytics with Graph Technology
By Rachel Howard
March 23, 2017 7 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Dirk Mahler at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Topics:
-The challenges of traditional software analytics tools
-An introduction to jQAssistant, powered by Neo4j
-The benefits of modeling software as a graph
Keywords: cypher • data model • graph data model • graph query language • graphconnect • java • jqassistant • maven • Software Analytics • spring
The JetBrains IDE Plugin for Graph Database Developers [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 16, 2017 8 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Many developers mostly stay in their integrated development environments (IDEs) when working on software. That’s why… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • graph database • IDE plugin • JetBrains IDE • neo4j ogm • opencypher • spring data neo4j • stored procedures • user-defined functions • user-defined procedures
This Week in Neo4j – 11 March 2017
By Mark Needham
March 11, 2017 6 mins read
Welcome to this week in Neo4j. This week we’ve got articles showing how to integrate Neo4j with Kibana, using jQAssistant from Pandas, and lots of releases of Neo4j and related projects. But first: International Women’s Day Praveena and Eve answering… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • docker • Elastic • International Women's Day • jqassistant • Kibana • neo4j drivers • Pandas • python • TrumpWorld
The Co-Evolution of Computer Hardware & Graph Databases: Why Graph-Native Matters
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 9, 2017 9 mins read
Neo4j is a native graph database, which means all of the code – from the web browser to the drivers, Bolt protocol, page cache, cluster protocols, disk storage format — is optimized for graph workloads. As hardware advances come along,… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • CAPI Flash • co-processors • graph database • graph technology • IBM • index free adjacency • native graph database • neo4j • non-volatile RAM
Write Safer User-Defined Functions & Procedures with the Neo4j Procedure Compiler
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 2, 2017 4 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] As you may probably know, Neo4j 3.0 introduced a concept familiar to database users: user-defined procedures.… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • graph algorithms • java • Javac • JVM • Neo4j 3.1 • scala • user-defined functions • user-defined procedures
Just for Flask & React.js Developers: A New Neo4j Movies Template
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 28, 2017 10 mins read
Introduction Let’s jump right into it. You’re a Python developer interested in Neo4j and want to build a web app, microservice or mobile app. You’ve already read up on Neo4j, played around with some datasets, and know enough Cypher to… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • cypher • data model • express.js • flask • microservice • mobile app • python • React.js • web app
This Week in Neo4j – 25th February 2017
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 25, 2017 6 mins read
Welcome to this week in Neo4j! From now on instead of covering everything that happened in Neo4j at the end of the month in one mega-post we’re going to publish a more focused update once a week. We hope you… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • Elixir • IPython • JetBrains • nasa • Neo4j Browser • Neo4j sandbox • RDF • spring
From the Neo4j Community: January 2017
By Rachel Howard
February 14, 2017 5 mins read
The year is off to a great start when to comes to the Neo4j community. If this month is any indication of what’s to come, then we know that 2017 will be a big year for Neo4j projects, drivers and… Read more →
Keywords: apache spark • cypher • docker • GraphX • IBM POWER8 • Neo4j Community • Panama Papers • python • sql • TrumpWorld
2016: The Year in Neo4j Drivers
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 26, 2017 5 mins read
Spring is in the Air 2016 was the year when, in April with the availability of Neo4j 3.0 we also introduced our own binary protocol named Bolt. We also provided the first set of officially supported drivers for Bolt, including… Read more →
Keywords: .NET • bolt • Causal Clustering • django • Elixir • go • Haskell • java • javascript • jdbc
WayBlazer Cognitive Computing Application Powered by IBM Watson & Neo4j
By Rachel Howard
December 15, 2016 < 1 min read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Ivan Portilla at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: The three eras of computing What is cognitive computing? What’s new with Watson? Streamlining travel with Wayblazer
Keywords: Bluemix • CAPI Flash • cognitive computing • cypher • embodied cognition • graph technology • graphconnect • IBM Watson • POWER8 • WayBlazer
Couchbase & JDBC Integrations for Neo4j 3.x
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 22, 2016 4 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Lorenzo Speranzoni at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: Converting JSON documents into nodes Couchbase integration architecture How the JDBC driver makes use of the Bolt… Read more →
Keywords: bolt • Couchbase • fraud detection • graph database • graphconnect • jdbc • json • neo4j 3.0 • Recommendation Engine • Spotify
The 5-Minute Interview: Tim Williamson, Data Scientist, Monsanto
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 11, 2016 10 mins read
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I sat down with Tim Williamson, a Data Scientist at Monsanto. I interviewed Tim at GraphConnect San Francisco after his popular presentation: “Graphs Are Feeding the World.” Tell us a little bit about your role… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • apache kafka • Big Data • cypher • data modeling • graphconnect • Oracle • relational database • Titan