The Secret Sauce of Neo4j: Modeling and Querying Graphs
By Allison Wu
July 1, 2020 21 mins read
Learn about the secret sauce of Neo4j, and understand what graphs are all about. Delve into use cases such as recommendation engines and flight data.
Explore: cypher • graphconnect • modeling • nosql • property graph model • Recommendation Engine • Relational Databases • secret sauce of Neo4j • sql • use cases
Missed Connections: A Tale of a Porsche, Paul Newman and a Relational Database
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 25, 2020 5 mins read
Discover the benefits of a graph database via a story about auctioning off the Porsche 935 Paul Newman co-drove to a second place in the 1979 LeMans race.
Explore: Big Data • data analytics • data science • fraud • graph database • machine learning • Paul Newman • relational database • social media • sql
Neo4j BI Connector Brings the Power of Graph Databases to the World’s Most Popular Data Discovery Tools
By MarTechSeries - March 24, 2020
Explore: BI • bi-connector • data • sql
Neo4j Announced the Availability of its Neo4j BI Connector
By Datanami - March 24, 2020
Explore: BI • BI tools • bi-connector • data • sql
Neo4j BI Connector Brings the Power of Graph Databases to the World’s Most Popular Data Discovery Tools
By AI Thority - March 24, 2020
Explore: ai • BI • bi-connector • data • sql
Getting Started with the Neo4j BI Connector
By Jocelyn Hoppa
March 24, 2020 7 mins read
Learn how to get started with the Neo4j BI Connector, which provides easy access to Neo4j datasets from popular BI tools like Tableau and more.
Explore: APOC library • BI • BI Driver • bi-connector • bolt • business intelligence • cypher • data connections • Data Visualization • graph database
Neo4j gives its graph database a major enterprise facelift
By SiliconANGLE - February 4, 2020
Explore: horizontally scale • Neo4j 4.0 • Scale • scaling • sql
How We Mined More Than 715,000 Luanda Leaks Records
By International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - February 3, 2020
Explore: Data Leak • data mining • sql • SQL Server
Deep Access Control: 5-Minute Interview with Manish Jain
By David Penick
December 20, 2019 4 mins read
In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour DC 2019), we discuss how Manish Jain and his team at NTT Data use Neo4j.
Explore: 5-minute interview • graph database • graph technology • Manish Jain • NTT Data Services • relational database • sql
Graph Hyper-Growth Ahead: 5-Minute Interview with Kyle McNamara
By David Penick
November 22, 2019 < 1 min read
Check out this 5-minute interview with Kyle McNamara, CEO, Americas at GraphAware, about how GraphAware works alongside Neo4j.
Explore: 5-minute interview • graph database • graph technology • GraphAware • Knowledge Graph • Kyle McNamara • natural language processing • real-time recommendations • sql
Streaming Graphs: Combining Kafka and Neo4j
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 29, 2019 10 mins read
If you’re looking for the basics on how to turn streams into graphs with Neo4j and the Neo4j-Streams plugin, you’ve come to the right place.
Explore: apache kafka • Confluent Cloud • cypher • financial fraud • iam • Neo4j Browser • neo4j streams • property graph model • Recommendations • social network
Turning Data Into Actionable Knowledge: 5-Minute Interview with David Meza
By David Penick
October 4, 2019 3 mins read
Check out this 5-minute interview with David Meza, Chief Knowledge Architect at Johnson Space Center, about how Neo4j has helped NASA.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Connected Data • cypher • Data Visualization • David Meza • engineers • graph database • graph technology • graph visualization • Knowledge Graph
Bringing the Newly Approved GQL Project Into Focus
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 30, 2019 3 mins read
Learn more about the recently approved GQL project to to create a new declarative property graph query language and next steps.
Explore: database languages • GQL • GQL Project • GQL standard • ISO/IEC JTC1 • property graph query language • sql
GQL Is Now a Global Standards Project alongside SQL
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 16, 2019 3 mins read
Learn how Graph Query Language (GQL) has just been approved to become an international standards project and what’s next for this graph database tech.
Explore: cypher • GQL • graph query language • IT standards • ldbc • open source • opencypher • property graph • sql • WG3
Blazing Fast Recommendations: 5-Minute Interview with Tim Hanssen
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 9, 2019 3 mins read
Check out this 5-minute interview with Tim Hanssen, Founder and CTO of Mediaconnect, who uses Neo4j to build a real-time recommendation engine.
Explore: 5-minute interview • graph database • graph technology • Joins • real-time recommendations • Recommendations • relational database • sql • Tim Hanssen
Collaborative Technology Intelligence Platform
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 26, 2019 10 mins read
Discover how DuPont uses Neo4j to solve global challenges and share information with its diverse group of end users including scientists and engineers.
Explore: DuPont • graph database • graph traversal • graphconnect • knowledge management system • native graph database • neo4j • Neo4j for the Enterprise • sql • technology intelligence
Accelerating Digital Transformation at CA Technologies with Neo4j
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 19, 2019 9 mins read
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 • cloud • Databanks • digital transformation • graph database • graphconnect • Knowledge Graph • Neo4j for the Enterprise • sql • STAR
Avoiding Database JOINs: 5-Minute Interview with Michael Wytock
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 14, 2019 3 mins read
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 6 mins read
“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
The Evolution and Future of Graph Technology: Intelligent Systems
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 14, 2018 5 mins read
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
Graph Databases for Beginners: Why We Need NoSQL Databases
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 25, 2018 6 mins read
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 5 mins read
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 4 mins read
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 10 mins read
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 3 mins read
“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