Take a Ride on the Neo4j Rails! Mapping Shortest Routes Using a Graph Database
Keyhole Software rewrites their “MapQuest for Trains” application – originally built Java with Oracle 9i – with Neo4j, a Graph Database. In 2007, a colleague and I used Java with Oracle 9i to implement...
View ArticleNeo4j: Facebook GraphSearch for the Rest of Us
Repost from blog of Jim Webber, Chief Scientist of Neo Technology. The recent big announcement from Facebook was a search platform that provides answers to contextual questions. They’ve called it...
View ArticleNeo4j: A Developer’s Perspective
Open Software Integrators (OSI) provides a developer’s introduction to graph databases and using Neo4j. In the age of NoSQL databases, where a new database seems to pop up every week, it is not...
View ArticleInformation Security Defensives with Graph Database Approaches against Attack...
The Information Security Analytics shares how Graph Databases can manage an ‘entire defensive infosec posture’. I’m very excited to finally be able to talk about a technology that I’ve been working on...
View ArticleGmail Meter: Hacked with Neo4j
Rik Van Bruggen, Regional Sales Director of Neo Technology and data-mining explorer, recently donated some of his time to transform Gmail Meter statistics into incredible social graphs. Enjoy. A bunch...
View ArticleRecommendation Engines: RDBMS and SQL, Versus Graph Database
Rodger Lepinsky, Oracle guru, takes on query performance with Neo4j’s Cypher Query Language versus SQL For years, I’ve worked with Oracle, doing complex SQL. Recently I’ve been looking at the graph...
View ArticleUCSC researchers using big data to predict cancer outcomes
UCSC uses Graph Databases to predict Cancer Stuart’s group will build a separate database, called the Biomedical Evidence Graph (BMEG), for storing and analyzing interpretive information derived from...
View ArticleI MapReduced a Neo4j store
Creating and using a Neo4j Graph Model for specific use cases Lately I’ve been busy talking at conferences to tell people about our way to create large Neo4j databases. Large means some tens of...
View ArticleExplore the graph with Mule and Neo4j
The new connector, presented in this blog, allows Mule users to leverage the incredibly rich API that Neo4j offers with convenient configuration elements. Mule has a very extensive support for NoSQL...
View ArticleHow Facebook matured its data structure and stepped into the graph world
Facebook shifts to a TAO data store Several years ago Facebook engineers realized they had a problem. The old way of storing and accessing users’ data was bogging down their infrastructure and their...
View ArticleFinding Relationships in Trademark Data
Some Hacking with the data and Neo4j resulted in an intriguing dataset At the recent National Day of Civic hacking here at OSC we dug into a few ways to find relationships between Trademarks files with...
View ArticleBig Data Roundup
Neo4j’s partnership is making graphs more important for analytics Various companies have recently been active making announcements in the big data space (aren’t they always). Some of them, such as MapR...
View ArticleWrap-up: neo4j meetup, Dresden, 2013-06-25
A recent visit by [digital:meditation] to a Neo4j meetup tutorial I’ve been for quite a while into what they use to call “NoSQL databases” these days, even while we still heavily rely upon...
View ArticleThe Cloud is a Petri Dish, New Data Culture is Growing
James Governor talks about data and its constant development with the cloud RedMonk likes biological metaphors. Here is Stephen for example talking about Shadow IT and “good bacteria”. That said, those...
View ArticleNeo4j – or how I learned to stop worrying and love the graph
Jason Straughan learns how graph databases are changing the world At just that moment when I was convinced the social networking revolution was no more enlightening than reality television, I began to...
View ArticleLessons learned attending GO TO Amsterdam conference
Fred Verheul talks about his trip to a general developer conference with Neo4j Introduction Last month I attended GO TO Amsterdam, hashtag #gotoams, a general (not SAP-specific) developer conference...
View ArticleFacebook search app boosts graph database architecture to the fore
Facebook readies its new graph database, bringing more light to Neo Technology’s Neo4j and others It’s too early to tell whether Facebook’s heralded new Graph Search interface signals a turning point...
View ArticleUsing Neo4j from Python
Here we see how Neo4j and Python can work together to build some simple applications A guest post from Nigel Small, whose current areas of interest include Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Neo4j and...
View ArticleWhy Choose a Graph Database
Michael Hunger briefly describes graph databases such as Neo4j and what it is used for By this time, chances are very likely that you’ve heard of NoSQL, and of graph databases like Neo4j. NoSQL...
View ArticleNeo4j/Cypher: Getting the hang of query parameters
Mark Needham gives some advice on Neo4j on how to improve performance of your queries For as long as I’ve been using neo4j‘s cypher query language Michael has been telling me to use parameters in my...
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