Category: NoSQL Databases

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Federico Bozzini. It’s a fact: your friends have more friends than you do.Life isn’t a popularity contest. Which is just as well, because if it was based on the number of friends you have compared with the number your friends have, you’re likely to lose. The reassuring news is that it’s the same for pretty much all of us, thanks to the friendship paradox.Sociologist Scott L. Field’s 1991 paper, ‘Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do’, identified the friendship paradox phenomenon. It’s based on the logic that the mean number of friends of friends ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Bill Vorhies of Data Science Central and Rick Negrin of MemSQL recently delivered a webinar on data lakes and the use of Hadoop in the age of operational machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). In this blog post, we summarize some of the key points from the webinar, as a preview for the webinar. You can also view the recorded webinar at any point. Businesses need flexible access to their data to make the best decisions. Unfortunately, the systems in use today impose complexity and structural delays. MemSQL, a fast, fully scalable relational ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Patrick McFadin, VP of Developer Relations. So far, we have run five out of six DataStax Developer Day events this month. After four dates in the United States, we are now on the first leg of the European tour. DataStax Developer Days are aimed at a mix of people with Cassandra skills—from those who are new to this database to those who want to expand what they do with search, analytics, and graph. However, our Developer Day in London (on November 6) surprised me by how many people wanted to discuss multi-cloud ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Graph technologies are the scaffolding for building intelligent applications, enabling more accurate predictions and faster decisions. In fact, graphs are underpinning a wide variety of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases.This blog series is designed to help you better leverage graph analytics to effectively innovate and develop intelligent applications faster.Last week we looked at a variety of use cases for graph analytics, from real-time fraud detection to recommendation engines. This week we’ll delve deeper into a few of the ways that a graph database like Neo4j supports numerous AI use cases.Knowledge GraphsAndrew Ng, ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j | November 11, 2018Reading time: 1 minute Welcome to our new biweekly Sunday series, #GraphCast, which aims to unearth digestible, notable and just plain fun Neo4j YouTube videos (of which there are a lot).Whether we focus on some of our most popular videos or highlight a particularly solid educational piece on graph technology that may’ve slipped past you, #GraphCast is meant to be short, sweet and the perfect companion piece to your Sunday morning bowl of cereal (or two, if you’re hungry, we don’t judge). This ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Welcome to This Week in Neo4j where I share the most interesting things I found in our community over the last seven days. I found some excellent material including graph modeling tips from Max and Michael Simons, computing graph embeddings, building your first graph app, and a feature preview on fulltext-search. Looking through the new material each week is always insightful and I learn something new. I hope you do too. The Neo4j DevRel team were busy this week. Will and Karin were in San Francisco at QCon and GraphQL Summit sharing ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Catherine Kearns. Cambridge Intelligence, the leading provider of network visualization and analysis solutions, is thrilled to announce it has been selected to join Scale-Up Club 2018.The invitation-only club, organized by Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK), handpicks creators of the most disruptive technologies that aim to change the world. The program kicked off this week with a range of entrepreneurial events including a CEO summit at St James’s Palace, hosted by HRH The Duke of York. It’s a unique opportunity for the most promising and fast-growing organizations to learn from each other, as well as ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor, Neo4j | November 9, 2018Reading time: 3 minutes “One of the most surprising things I’ve seen with Neo4j is the speed at which we’re able to innovate and deliver features to our customers,” said Mark Hashimoto, Senior Director of Engineering, Digital Home at Comcast.In this week’s five-minute interview, we discuss how Comcast uses the flexibility of the graph data model to develop and launch new features rapidly using Neo4j for persistence.Tell us about how Comcast is using Neo4j.Mark Hashimoto: I work in the Digital Home space, which ... Read More

Feed: Yellowbrick Data. Author: Joshua Miner; “In our testing of Yellowbrick, we compared the performance of a six-rack system to the 11” baseline Yellowbrick system. And performance was anywhere from 3 to 50 to 100 times faster.” – SaaS Analytics Provider Key Highlights Run mixed analytic workloads all the time Eliminate time-consuming job scheduling, tuning, and maintenance tasks Expand the system by adding capacity and compute without downtime Replace racks of hardware with a turn-key appliance Rest easy with remote monitoring and 24×7 support Power from simplicity, performance without tuning Yellowbrick Data aims to make analytics and data warehousing simple ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Jonathan Ellis, CTO and Co-founder. DataStax’s contributions to the Cassandra community cover a wide range of needs, all oriented towards your success in building Cassandra-based applications. I think of these as the “Three C’s of Community”: Code, Coaching, and Conferences. Code Cassandra Obviously, DataStax continues to contribute to Apache Cassandra™ itself.  Besides contributing the majority of the “tick-tock” releases culminating in the current 3.11, DataStax has contributed multiple features to the upcoming 4.0 release. These include: I’m happy to announce that as of today we are also releasing the DataStax Distribution of ... Read More