Interchangeable Parts: 5-Minute Interview with Preston Hendrickson, Principal Systems Analyst at CALIBRE
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 26, 2018 4 mins read
“It’s easy to teach people to use Neo4j. It’s hands-on training, not death by PowerPoint,” said Preston Hendrickson, Principal Systems Analyst at CALIBRE. CALIBRE works with large government customers, including the U.S. Army, where maintenance, operation and support costs of… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • data retrieval • data science • dynamic SQL • Graph Databases • nosql • python • rdbms • recursive SQL • sql queries
RDBMS & Graphs: SQL vs. Cypher Query Languages
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 7, 2016 10 mins read
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 →
Explore: cypher • data modeling • declarative query language • graph database • graph query language • query language • rdbms • relational database • sql • sql queries
5 Sure Signs It’s Time to Give Up Your Relational Database
By Neo4j Staff
July 27, 2015 4 mins read
Despite advances in computing, faster processors and high-speed networks, the performance of relational database applications is becoming slower and slower. These relational database performance problems are happening because of the rapid growth not only in the volume and velocity of… Read more →
Explore: data model • Data Relationships • database administrator • rdbms • Relational Databases • self-join • sql • sql queries • tabular data
The Secret to More Efficient Data Science with Neo4j and R [OSCON Preview]
By Nicole White, Data Scientist
June 29, 2015 3 mins read
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 →
Explore: data science • graph database • neo4j • nosql • open source • Oracle • OSCON • r • sql • sql queries
Cypher – A view from a recovering SQL DBA
By Neo4j Staff
December 7, 2011 < 1 min read
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 →
Explore: cypher • sql queries