Case Study: How KinCards Used Neo4j to Revolutionize Business Cards
Business cards: We forget them, lose them or run out of them – usually when we need them most. Just think how many times you’ve said, “I’m sorry. I don’t have my business cards with me,” or “I just ran...
View ArticleGraph Databases for Beginners: Why Data Relationships Matter
We live in an ever-more-connected world, and data relationships, will only increase in years to come. If your business is to succeed in a highly connected world, you must learn to leverage those...
View ArticleGraph Databases for Beginners: Why We Need NoSQL Databases
As the problems with SQL-based relational databases have become all to clear, there’s been a meteoric rise in the popularity of a new family of data storage technologies known as NoSQL. NoSQL is a...
View ArticleGraph Databases for Beginners: ACID vs. BASE Explained
When it comes to NoSQL databases, data consistency models can sometimes be strikingly different than those used by relational databases (as well as quite different from other NoSQL stores). The two...
View ArticleGraph Databases for Beginners: A Tour of Aggregate Stores
The world of NoSQL databases is far from uniform. Unlike relational databases (RDBMS) which are fairly uniform, the ecosystem of NoSQL technologies brims with diversity. In order to understand the...
View ArticleGraph Databases for Beginners: Other Graph Data Technologies
Whether you’re new to the world of graph databases or an old pro, it’s easy to assume there’s only a few types of graph database technologies. In reality, it’s one of the most diverse sectors of the...
View ArticleIntegration Testing with Neo4j using C# [Community Post]
Unlike prototypical unit testing which is designed to focus on small units of isolated code, integration testing is a type of testing which is typically designed to test interactions between two or...
View ArticleFrom Good to Graph: Choosing the Right Database
For many of us, it feels like software development has well and thoroughly moved into the NoSQL database era. However, recent studies suggest that adoption is still as low as 20%. Personally, I joined...
View ArticleCyGraph: Cybersecurity Situational Awareness That’s More Scalable, Flexible &...
Preventing and reacting to attacks in cyberspace involves a complex and rapidly changing milieu of factors, requiring a flexible architecture for advanced analytics, queries and graph visualization....
View ArticleAnnouncing the First-Ever Neo4j Certification for Professionals
With the strong growth of deployments of Neo4j by enterprise customers and users in all industries, we’ve been asked time and again to provide a certification mechanism that allows Neo4j experts to...
View ArticleFrom Idea to App Store: The Neo4j Story of Traverse Mobile [Community Post]
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Where We Got the Idea for Traverse Our...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know for Graph Data Modeling Success
It’s the new year, and you’ve just started your next app or side project. After spending some time thinking through your use cases and end user experience, you recognize how important data storage will...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Cypher for the SQL Developer
Traditionally, if you wanted to query a dataset the only option was to learn SQL and query your relational database or data warehouse. But over the last 5-10 years we’ve seen the emergence of NoSQL...
View ArticleA Graph-Specialized ETL: Taking Citizens into a Graph and Keeping It Up to Date
In this post I want to talk about the challenges we faced during our graph journey and how we overcame them. The outline of this post is as follows. Why do we need ETL and sync from SQL to a graph...
View ArticleFrom Good to Graph: Choosing the Right Database
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Clark Richey – Chief Technolgoy Officer at FactGem – delivered this presentation on his database decision path toward Neo4j. For more videos...
View ArticleThe 5-Minute Interview: Jesus Llevadias Jane, Co-Founder of Graph Everywhere
For this week’s 5-Minute Interview, I spoke with Jesus Llevadias Jane, Co-Founder of Graph Everywhere. I sat down with Jesus at GraphConnect Europe. Here’s what we talked about: Why did you decide to...
View ArticleGraph Databases for Beginners: Native vs. Non-Native Graph Technology
No technology is equally good at everything, and databases are no exception. It’s possible for databases to satisfy different kinds of functions: batch and transactional workloads, memory access and...
View ArticleMy Time as a Neo4j Intern: Thoughts on an Authentic Culture
Last semester, my professor told us to “pick an internship based on its quality and what you’ll learn, not on your assumed career path.” That seemed like great advice for me, especially since I hadn’t...
View ArticleFrom the Neo4j Community: August 2016
The Neo4j community has been busy this summer with a number of great projects, code libraries and a host of great articles on how graphs are everywhere – including everything from the Rio Summer...
View ArticleThe 9 GraphConnect San Francisco Speakers You Simply Can’t Miss
There are a lot of great reasons to attend GraphConnect San Francisco, but one of the best reasons is that every year we feature an entirely new lineup of the world’s absolute first-rate speakers and...
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