Collaborative Technology Intelligence Platform
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 26, 2019|Reading time: 10 minutes
Discover how DuPont uses Neo4j to solve global challenges and share information with its diverse group of end users including scientists and engineers.
Explore: Business Intelligence • DuPont • graph database • graph traversal • graphconnect • knowledge management system • native graph database • neo4j • sql • technology intelligence
Accelerating Digital Transformation at CA Technologies with Neo4j
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 19, 2019|Reading time: 9 minutes
Discover how CA Technologies used Neo4j to share enriched data between their sales, development and IT teams to create a company-wise database.
Explore: ApacheSpark • Business Intelligence • cloud • Databanks • digital transformation • graph database • graphconnect • Knowledge Graph • sql • STAR
Avoiding Database JOINs: 5-Minute Interview with Michael Wytock
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 14, 2019|Reading time: 3 minutes
In this 5-minute interview with Michael Wytock, CEO of Coshx, you’ll learn how a graph data model improves stackholder communications and more.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Coshx • data analytics • data model • graph database • Joins • Michael Wytock • relational database • sql • tabular data
Agile Open Source Intelligence: 5-Minute Interview with Frederick Kagan
By Jocelyn Hoppa
February 1, 2019|Reading time: 6 minutes
“One thing that a relational database isn’t, is relational ,” said Frederick Kagan, Director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute. All intelligence organizations are interested in seeing data connections and traversing networks. The Critical Threats Project… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • cypher • Frederick Kagan • graph technology • Intelligence • intelligence analytical systems • ontologies • python • relational database • sql • unstructured data
The Evolution and Future of Graph Technology: Intelligent Systems
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 14, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
The field of graph technology has developed rapidly in recent years. From the beginnings of the Neo4j graph database – released almost nine years ago in version 1.0 – up to the latest version (and also the developments of other… Read more →
Explore: ai • big data solution • GQL • graph database • graph query language • graph technology • Intelligent Systems • ML • neo4j • nlp • sql
Graph Databases for Beginners: Why We Need NoSQL Databases
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 25, 2018|Reading time: 6 minutes
NoSQL databases are one of those things in life that are unhelpfully defined only by what they are not rather than by what they are, i.e., an anti-definition. NoSQL is a cheeky acronym for Not Only SQL – or more… Read more →
Explore: aggregate store • data model • data valence • data variety • data velocity • data volume • nosql • nosql database • relational database • sql
Powering Recommendations with a Graph Database: Proven Business Benefits [+ Case Studies]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 27, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
Relevant, real-time recommendations drive revenue, but they are challenging to deliver. That’s because good recommendations require bringing together so much data, surfacing the relationships between all that data and delivering just the right suggestion in context and in the moment.… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • data architecture • eBay • graph database • pricing engine • rdbms • real-time recommendations • Recommendations • sql • Walmart
Imperative vs. Declarative Query Languages: What’s the Difference?
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 21, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
The evolution of programming languages has grown in parallel with the evolution of computing itself, with new languages being created with each new advance and paradigm shift. After all, if language shapes how we view reality, then changes in computing… Read more →
Explore: cypher • database query language • declarative language • declarative query language • gremlin • imperative language • imperative query language • query language • sparql • sql
Graph Databases for Beginners: Why a Database Query Language Matters (More Than You Think)
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 15, 2018|Reading time: 10 minutes
Languages (the natural, human kind) shape how you view the world. From color to time to gender relations, there’s no escaping how language limits (or expands) your worldview. Words are the categories and labels that we use to process and… Read more →
Explore: cypher • cypher query language • database query language • graph database • graph technology • query language • rdbms • relational database • sql • structured query language
Visualizing Healthy Lifestyles: 5-Minute Interview with Alicia Powers, SVP at NYCEDC
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 22, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
“The future of graph technology is already here. It’s everywhere, because we can model anything in a way that’s more close to how it is in real life,” said Alicia Powers, Senior Vice President at New York City Economic Development… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • Data Visualization • graph community • Graph Databases • graph technology • graphconnect • neural networks • Recommendation Engine • Social Networks • sql
It’s Time for a Single Property Graph Query Language [Vote Now]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 15, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
The time has come to create a single, unified property graph query language. Different languages for different products help no one. We’ve heard from the graph community that a common query language would be powerful: more developers with transferable expertise;… Read more →
Explore: Amazon Neptune • cypher • declarative query language • G-CORE • GQL • graph query language • ldbc • neo4j • opencypher • Oracle • PGQL • SAP • sql
Now You Can Express Cypher Queries in Pure Python using Pypher [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 15, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Cypher is a pretty cool language. It allows you to easily manipulate and query your graph in a familiar – but at the same time – unique way. If you’re familiar with SQL, mixing in Cypher’s ASCII node and relationship… Read more →
Explore: cypher • cypher queries • fluent interface • linked list • neo4j • python • Python keywords • Python object • query language • sql
DevOps on Graphs:
The 5-Minute Interview with Ashley Sun, Software Engineer at LendingClub
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 23, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
“Basically, anything you can think of in your infrastructure, whether it’s GitHub, Jenkins, AWS, load balancers, Cisco UCS, vCenter – it’s all in our graph database,” said Ashley Sun, Software Engineer at LendingClub. DevOps at LendingClub is no easy feat:… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • AWS • Cisco UCS • cloud orchestration • deployment automation • DevOps • graphconnect • microservices • release automation • sql
Retail & Neo4j: Pricing & Revenue Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 30, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
It’s never been easier for customers to comparison shop. In a matter of minutes, customers can compare prices for a specific product across a dozen stores — and all from the comfort of home. They can even compare prices and… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • graph technology • Marriott • neo4j • pricing engine • relational database • Retail • retail pricing • revenue management • sql
Retail & Neo4j: Supply Chain Visibility & Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 22, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Now more than ever, supply chains are vast and complex. Products are often composed of different ingredients or parts that move through different vendors, and each of those parts may be composed of subparts, and the subparts may come from… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • graph database • graph visualization • neo4j • relational database • Retail • sql • supply chain management • supply chain transparency • supply chain visibility
How to Import the Bitcoin Blockchain into Neo4j [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 9, 2018|Reading time: 7 minutes
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] This guide runs through the basic steps for importing the bitcoin blockchain into a Neo4j graph… Read more →
Explore: Bitcoin • block header • blockchain • cryptocurrency • cypher • digital currency • distributed network • graph database • Segregated Witness • sql
Forrester Research: Graph Databases Vendor Landscape [Free Report]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 18, 2017|Reading time: 2 minutes
In 2015, analyst firm Forrester Research published a vendor landscape report on the state of graph databases. It included a few graph technology vendors, several graph use cases and described Neo4j as the “most popular graph database.” Since then, graph… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • Forrester research • Graph Databases • graph technology • java • native graph database • neo4j • python • sql • sustainable competitive advantage
A Path to the Graph: Data Integration That Begins without Writing Any Code
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 11, 2017|Reading time: 4 minutes
Most people understand the problem in any large organization today is that the data is in silos. Data is disconnected, and as a result, a report from any one source is incomplete and not necessarily actionable to the extent it… Read more →
Explore: BI • cypher • data fabric • data integration • data management • factgem • graphconnect • nosql database • sql • tableau
Machine Learning, Graphs and the Fake News Epidemic (Part 2)
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 10, 2017|Reading time: 5 minutes
In last week’s post, we discussed why designing a fully automated fake news detector is currently infeasible and introduced a semi-automated, graph-based solution which would use machine learning to work alongside human fact checkers to scalably flag and quarantine fake… Read more →
Explore: Connected Data • cypher • fake news • Graph Algorithm • graph database • graph technology • machine learning • pattern matching • relational model • sql
Financial Services & Neo4j: Anti-Money Laundering
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 26, 2017|Reading time: 3 minutes
Reducing the risk of money laundering presents a similar challenge to that of fraud detection when it comes to today’s financial services landscape. Firms need to know where funds come from and where they are headed, but criminals use indirection… Read more →
Explore: AML • anti-money laundering • cypher • Data Visualization • financial services • fraud detection • graph technology • money transfer • smurfing • sql
The 5-Minute Interview: David Brian Ward, CEO & Founder, Telegraph Hill Software
By Rachel Howard
May 19, 2017|Reading time: 3 minutes
“As with any kind of software, the best for the job is one whose function matches your data structures,” said David Brian Ward, CEO and Founder of Telegraph Hill Software. David and his team were searching for a tool that… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • cloud infrastructure • cypher • DevOps • key value store • product development • relational database • SaaS • software-as-a-service • sql
The Engineering Evolution of Neo4j into a Native Graph Database
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 2, 2017|Reading time: 4 minutes
Hi everyone. My name is Dr. Jim Webber. I’m Neo4j’s chief scientist, and I’d like to take a few minutes to talk to you about Neo4j’s evolution from an engineering point of view. Our Origin Story: Overcoming Complicated SQL Queries… Read more →
Explore: Causal Clustering • Connected Data • cypher • graph api • graph query language • native graph database • nosql database • recursive JOINs • relational database • sql
The 5-Minute Interview: Scott Grimes, Senior Director of Revenue Management at Marriott International
By Rachel Howard
April 7, 2017|Reading time: 5 minutes
“With Neo4j, we’ve been able to take our average processing time from over four minutes to about 13 seconds,” said Scott Grimes, Senior Director of Revenue Management at Marriott International. When Marriott customers search for hotel rooms for certain dates… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • cypher • Marriott • neo4j • Oracle RDBMS • pricing engine • pricing strategy • relational database • revenue management • sql
Public Service Announcement: Neo4j Drivers 1.2 Release
By Michael Hunger, Developer Relations
April 4, 2017|Reading time: 3 minutes
We are happy to announce that all our officially supported Bolt drivers are now available as versions 1.2. With this release, we massively improved the way you write code to work with a cluster, introducing reusable “transaction functions” and built-in retry… Read more →
Explore: .NET • causal consistency • graph database • java • jdbc • language driver • neo4j • neo4j drivers • python • sql
Graph-Specialized ETL: Taking Citizens into the Graph and Keeping It up to Date
By Rachel Howard
March 21, 2017|Reading time: 6 minutes
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by İrfan Nuri Karaca at GraphConnect Europe in April 2016. Here’s a quick review of what he covered: The exponentially growing pool of data worldwide How graphs solved Kale Yazılım’s data challenges Trends in… Read more →
Explore: census data • cobol • cypher • data integration • etl • graphconnect • nosql • rdbms • relational database • sql
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