William Lyon, Developer Relations Engineer May 16, 2023 15mins read
Hands-On Workshop Exploring Working With Road Network Data and Routing With Graph AlgorithmsRunning path-finding algorithms on large datasets is a use case that graph databases are particularly well suited for. While often pathfinding algorithms are used for finding routes using… Read more →
Kees Vegter, Pre-Sales Engineer, Neo4j Mar 31, 2023 6mins read
Discover the power of Cypher Paths in Neo4j Database. Learn about Path data type, variable length paths, and relationship functions. Optimize your query engine today. Read more →
Saloni Gupta, Data Scientist, SparkCognition Mar 15, 2023 8mins read
Photo by Galina Nelyubova on UnsplashWell, you might be wondering: Why would one want to write Pandas or SQL-style queries while working with a graph database like Neo4j? Does it not defeat the purpose of having data stored and ingested in… Read more →
Who among us remembers how hard it was to learn to drive? If you haven’t learned to drive yet, or don’t intend to learn, how hard do you think it would be?Pretty daunting, as I remember (confession: it took me three… Read more →
Elaine Rosenberg, Curriculum Developer at Neo4j Feb 08, 2023 2mins read
We have just published the Cypher Aggregations course in our Cypher Learning path.GraphAcademy Cypher Aggregations Course PageThis course will take about four hours to complete and includes content, videos, checks your understanding questions about the content, and hands-on challenges so you can… Read more →
Tom Nijhof, Back End Developer at CytoSMART Jan 26, 2023 3mins read
I got a helpful email from Ron van Weverwijk pointing out that constructing a Cypher query every time does not give the best performance. I didn’t know at the time that this would also solve another problem. The problem is… Read more →
Tom Nijhof, Back End Developer at CytoSMART Jan 26, 2023 6mins read
PubChem is a database with millions of chemical compounds. All these can be downloaded and put into your graph database as a basis for your project.I downloaded 197M synonyms related to 57M compounds for the Open Measurement project.Open MeasurementThis project is… Read more →
Tom Nijhof, Back End Developer at CytoSMART Jan 26, 2023 7mins read
Combining PubChem and Neo4j even furtherIn my last blog, I downloaded 197M nodes of all the chemical synonyms out of PubChem. This number was of course too low to cover every chemical synonym ever used.I do want to connect the compounds from… Read more →
Proper modeling of a graph database may be challenging. Because it requires a little bit of a different approach than relational database, we need to take into consideration what types of questions we want to answer.Luckily, nowadays we can use tools… Read more →
Tom Nijhof, Back End Developer at CytoSMART Jan 05, 2023 6mins read
The open measurement graph will be used to find connections between different measurements in different experiments and conditions. In a previous blog, we added chemical compounds — and their synonyms — from PubChem into the graph. In this blog, we are going to populate… Read more →