RDBMS & Graphs: SQL vs. Cypher Query Languages

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March 7, 2016| Reading time: 9 minutes

When it comes to a database query language, linguistic efficiency matters. Querying relational databases is easy with SQL. As a declarative query language, SQL allows both for easy ad hoc querying in a database tool as well as specifying use-case… Read more →

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5 Sure Signs It’s Time to Give Up Your Relational Database

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July 27, 2015| Reading time: 3 minutes

Despite advances in computing, faster processors and high-speed networks, the performance of relational database applications is becoming slower and slower. These performance problems are happening because of the rapid growth not only in the volume and velocity of data, but… Read more →

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The Secret to More Efficient Data Science with Neo4j and R [OSCON Preview]

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June 29, 2015| Reading time: 3 minutes

It’s a sad but true fact: Most data scientists spend 50-80% of their time cleaning and munging data and only a fraction of their time actually building predictive models. This is most often true in a traditional stack, where most… Read more →

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Cypher – A view from a recovering SQL DBA

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December 7, 2011| Reading time: 1 minute

Through the eyes of a SQL master, Cypher looks different yet somehow familiar. In this humorous and insightful blog post, Andrés Taylor guides you along the mental shift required to grok querying Neo4j. Through progressive examples, he presents SQL queries… Read more →

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