Graph Databases for Beginners: A (Brief) Tour of Aggregate Stores
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 27, 2018 7 mins read
In 1841, William Buckland was one of the first paleontologists to observe what today we call the Cambrian explosion. At the time, he naturally knew that it would become a favorite metaphor used the world over to describe whenever we… Read more →
Explore: aggregate store • apache cassandra • document database • document store • key value store • MongoDB • nosql • nosql database • Redis • wide-column store
NoSQL Polyglot Persistence: Tools and Integrations with Neo4j
By Rachel Howard
November 9, 2016 8 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by William Lyon at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: Why polyglot persistence? How to keep data consistent across platforms The new, powerful integration tools introduced by… Read more →
Explore: bolt • cypher • docker • document database • graphconnect • MongoDB • nosql • polyglot persistence • Redis • relational database
Using NLP + Neo4j for a Social Media Recommendation Engine
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 4, 2016 5 mins read
GraphAware is a Gold sponsor of GraphConnect San Francisco. Meet their team on October 13-14th at the Hyatt Regency SF. Introduction In recent years, the rapid growth of social media communities has created a vast amount of digital documents on… Read more →
Explore: conceptnet • document database • document modeling • elasticsearch • GraphAware • natural language processing • nlp • Recommendation Engine • social media • text analysis
Game Discovery: A Recommendation Algorithm for Video Games [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 6, 2016 3 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.] Movie recommendation systems usually ask you to rate what you like or dislike so it can… Read more →
Explore: cypher • document database • Game Discovery • Graph Algorithm • graph database • recommendation algorithm • Recommendation Engine • recommendation system • shortest path algorithm • video games
From Good to Graph: Choosing the Right Database
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 4, 2016 11 mins read
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Clark Richey – Chief Technology Officer at FactGem – delivered this presentation on his database decision path toward Neo4j. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and GraphConnect Europe, check out graphconnect.com.. I’m… Read more →
Explore: Data Visualization • document database • graph • graph database • graphconnect • nosql database • RDF • relational database • resource description framework • XML database
From the Neo4j Community: March 2016
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 2, 2016 3 mins read
Whew! With GraphConnect Europe now behind us, it’s time to look at all of the wonderful content published by the Neo4j community in the month of March before the Neo4j 3.0 announcement and Panama Papers coverage eclipsed everything else. If… Read more →
Explore: 3D visualization • Connected Data • cypher • data validation • document database • fraud investigation • graph database • Insurance Fraud • Neo4j Community • Recommendation Engine
Neo4j Doc Manager: Polyglot Persistence for MongoDB & Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 29, 2015 6 mins read
[Editor’s Note:] This Neo4j Lab has been deprecated. The code is available in our GitHub project, but is no longer actively maintained. When building scalable applications, developers have a myriad of technologies to choose from, especially when choosing a database… Read more →
Explore: data model • document database • mongo connector • MongoDB • neo4j • polyglot persistence • product catalog • property graph • property graph model • real-time recommendations
Why Graph Databases Are Best for Handling Connected Data like in Diaspora
By Neo4j Staff
November 13, 2013 4 mins read
Handling Connected Domains with the “Right Tool for the Job” Sarah Mei recently wrote a great blog post describing the problems she and her colleagues ran into when managing highly connected data using document databases. Document databases (like other aggregate… Read more →
Explore: aggregate store • data model • diaspora • document database • graph database • MongoDB • PostgreSQL • relational database • ruby on rails • social network
