Retail & Neo4j: Ecommerce Delivery Service Routing
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 17, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
As a retailer, if you think keeping up with Amazon is expensive and time-consuming, consider the alternative: extinction. When it comes to delivery and fulfillment, Amazon is the uncontested emperor of ecommerce. Yet, their efficiency in tracking and delivering orders… Read more →
Explore: Amazon • cypher • eBay • ecommerce • ecommerce delivery • MySQL • Retail • ruby • service routing • service-oriented architecture
An Introduction & Tutorial for Structr 2.1
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 3, 2017|Reading time: 3 minutes
In one of our previous blog posts, we promised to write more about new features of our upcoming release of Structr, version 2.1, so here we are. New Tutorial But before we dive into the details, we’d like to to… Read more →
Explore: App development • deployment tool • graphconnect • javascript • json • neo4j • python • ruby • Structr • version control system
2016: The Year in Neo4j Drivers
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 26, 2017|Reading time: 4 minutes
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 →
Explore: .NET • bolt • Causal Clustering • django • Elixir • go • Haskell • java • javascript • jdbc • neo4j drivers • PHP • python • ruby • spark
Answering All Your Questions: The Neo4j Knowledge Base
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 19, 2016|Reading time: 3 minutes
As more and more people discover the joy and the power of using Neo4j, we naturally find that we get more of the same questions and issues popping up. Some questions require updates and improvements to the documentation (check out… Read more →
Explore: github • graph database • hardware setup • knowledge base • neo4j • Neo4j documentation • ruby • ruby gem • wordpress • ZenDesk
Neolytics: Analyzing Ruby Code with Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 1, 2016|Reading time: 3 minutes
For a long time I’ve been wanting to use Neo4j as a tool to analyze Ruby code. Using Ruby for almost a decade, I have a lot of experience with effectively finding my way around Ruby code. Still, Ruby programs… Read more →
Explore: cyclomatic complexity • data model • joern • jqassistant • neo4j • neolytics • rails application • ruby • ruby gem • tracepoint
From the Neo4j Community: December 2015
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 27, 2016|Reading time: 2 minutes
The Neo4j community ended 2015 with a bunch of great articles, videos, presentations and new projects. Collectively, you published some great pieces on Ruby, .NET, Spring Data Neo4j, Star Wars, beer…and diapers. Below are some of our favorite pieces from… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data model • graph database • Neo4j Community • prologram • Recommendation Engine • ruby • spring data neo4j • Star Wars • twitter influencer
GraphStarter: Get Your Neo4j Rails App Up and Running Quickly
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 30, 2015|Reading time: 3 minutes
For a while now, I’ve been building various Neo4j.rb educational resources using the example of an asset portal. There have been: A screencast series (the first half and a second half) A SitePoint article on building recommendations and access control… Read more →
Explore: access control • asset portal • neo4j • neo4j rails • neo4j.rb • rails • rails application • rails engine • rails server • ruby
Using Graph Structure Record Linkage on Irish Census Data with Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 2, 2015|Reading time: 7 minutes
For just over a year I’ve been obsessed on-and-off with a project ever since I stayed in the town of Skibbereen, Ireland. Taking data from the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses, I hoped I would be able to find a… Read more →
Explore: census data • cypher • data model • Data Relationships • elasticsearch • graph structure • Master Data Management • neo4j • record linkage • ruby
From the Neo4j Community: August 2015
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 17, 2015|Reading time: 2 minutes
As summer wraps up, it’s time to look back at all of the wonderful projects, articles, videos and slideshows published by the Neo4j community. Below are our top summer picks from graphistas all across the world. If you would like… Read more →
Explore: azure cloud • community • Graph Databases • GrapheneDB • Master Data Management • MongoDB • neo4j • Recommendation Engine • ruby • spring boot
Free Neo4j Books (+ Discounts), from Beginner to Advanced
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 14, 2015|Reading time: 5 minutes
Editor’s Note: All promotions in this blog post have now expired. Please use this post for informational purposes only and to browse Neo4j books available from Packt Publishing. Whether you’re a brand-new user of Neo4j or a seasoned vet, you… Read more →
Explore: cypher • data modeling • Graph Data • Graph Databases • java • neo4j • neo4j books • python • ruby • sql
New Screencasts: Advanced Ruby on Rails with Neo4j
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 18, 2015|Reading time: 2 minutes
If there are two things that I enjoy most in my technical life it would be Neo4j and Ruby. Both give me the one thing I want most from the tools I use: the ability to abstract out the tedious… Read more →
Explore: activenode • cypher • data model • neo4j • neo4j.rb • object model • ruby • ruby on rails • screencast
Making a Difference: The Public Neo4j-Users Slack Group
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 5, 2015|Reading time: 3 minutes
Update We are moving our Neo4j Community Support Forum to a new place as we have outgrown Slack. Thank you all for your help and support there. Now join us on community.neo4j.com for a better experience Making a Difference: The… Read more →
Explore: cypher • go • java • neo4j • PHP • python • r • ruby • slack • stackoverflow
Cypher: LOAD JSON from URL AS Data
By Michael Hunger, Developer Relations
July 29, 2015|Reading time: 6 minutes
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.… Read more →
Explore: bash • Cypher Query • java • javascript • json • load json • neo4j • python • ruby • stack overflow
New Screencasts: Create a Ruby on Rails App with Neo4j
By Neo4j Community
July 20, 2015|Reading time: 2 minutes
On the Neo4j.rb team we’ve always strived for good documentation. That hasn’t always been easy though! However, we know that if we want other people to understand and to be able to use the awesome tools that we work on,… Read more →
Explore: activenode • lotus • neo4j gem • neo4j.rb • rails app • ruby • ruby app • ruby on rails • screencast • sinatra
From the Neo4j Community: June 2015
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 9, 2015|Reading time: 2 minutes
Our community is awesome! Here are some of the highlights of what all the graphistas posted during the month of June. Thank you to everyone who contributed to help make our community great! To see more posts from our amazing… Read more →
Explore: apache spark • community • docker • fraud detection • graph database • natural language processing • neo4j • ruby • Spring Data • wordpress
Neo4j.rb: Query or QueryProxy?
By Neo4j Staff
February 10, 2015|Reading time: 5 minutes
Written by Chris Grigg, originally posted on the Neo4j.rb Blog Query or QueryProxy? One of the most crucial pieces of Neo4j.rb is Neo4j::ActiveNode::Query::QueryProxy, but it may be the area of the gem that is the least spelled out in our… Read more →
Explore: chris grigg • neo4j.rb • ruby
Neo4j.rb v4.1 Released
By Neo4j Staff
January 11, 2015|Reading time: 4 minutes
Originally posted on the Neo4j.rb Blog Just three months since releasing 3.0, we’re proud to have Neo4j.rb 4.1, and Neo4j-core 4.0 released to the world. Are you excited? We’re stoked. Get it by changing your gemfile to gem ‘neo4j’, ‘~>… Read more →
Explore: neo4j.rb • ruby • ruby driver
Switching From MongoDB to Neo4j
By Neo4j Staff
October 7, 2014|Reading time: 4 minutes
Written by Nick Manning, originally posted on his Blog. Our Startup Swig is a mobile app (iOS, Android) that helps you explore new drinks and share them with the world. Take a picture of what you’re drinking, tag it with taste… Read more →
Explore: community • Graph Databases • heroku • MongoDB • neo4j • Postgres • Redis • relational database • ruby • ruby on rails
A “Typical” Week in the Neo4j Community
By Neo4j Staff
December 16, 2011|Reading time: 2 minutes
We were curious to find out just how much happens within a single week in the Neo4j community. So we did the easy thing and harvested our ingenious @neo4j Twitter stream. And we were blown away by the results! There… Read more →
Explore: cypher • graph database • hacking • heroku • Neo4j Community • nosql • ruby • sparql • spring data neo4j • twitter
Heroku Neo4j Add-On Available in Private Beta
By Neo4j Staff
August 4, 2011|Reading time: 4 minutes
Hello Graphistas and Rubyists! Now Heroku has become a language polyglot platform , we’re happy to announce that we’re enhancing the NOSQL ecosystem for Heroku customers and users by releasing the Neo4j-Graph Database Add-On. The Neo4j-Graph Database Add-On became “public”… Read more →
Explore: cloud • heroku • Heroku Neo4j Add-on • hosting • jruby • paas • ruby
Neo4j 1.2 Final – Prêt-à-Porter
By Neo4j Staff
December 30, 2010|Reading time: 3 minutes
With the Neo4j components, we supplied the fabric for stitching together graph-based applications. Now, with Neo4j 1.2 we are proud to offer a ready-to-wear graph server, for dressing up any application in graph style. This is the start of a… Read more →
Explore: c# • graphdb • Neo4j 1.2 • release • REST API • ruby • server
Mashups with the Facebook Graph API and Neo4j
By Neo4j Staff
May 7, 2010|Reading time: 8 minutes
In case you didn’t notice already, graph databases like Neo4j are hot nowadays. People ask questions, write about them, also in the contexts of NOSQL and RDF. Recently Twitter open sourced their graphdb implementation, targeted at shallow, distributed graphs. And… Read more →
Explore: facebook • graph api • graphdb • neo4j.rb • ruby
Update on Neo4j Ruby bindings
By Julian Simpson
March 12, 2010|Reading time: 1 minute
During 2010 there’s been two releases of the Neo4j.rb JRuby bindings for the Neo4j graph database so far. Time to catch up with what’s new!Version 0.4.0 of Neo4j.rb came with improved traversal performance, more options on how to use relationships,… Read more →
Explore: jruby • Neo4j ruby • release • ruby
Access control lists the graph database way
By Neo4j Staff
February 25, 2010|Reading time: 6 minutes
Access control lists the graph database way In many contexts you need to handle user permissions to access, create or change some kind of resources. A common example is a file system, and that’s what we are going to dive… Read more →
Explore: acl • example • graphdb • jruby • neo4j • ruby
Holiday fun with Neo4j
By Neo4j Staff
December 25, 2009|Reading time: 2 minutes
Looking for something fun to do during the holidays? Here are a few suggestions for some new cool Neo4j things that you can play around with.A very recent addition to the Neo4j space is the JRuby library Neo4jr-social by Matthew… Read more →
Explore: holiday fun with Neo4j • java • jruby • jython • neo4j.rb • nosql • python • ruby • social network