Category: Graph Databases

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Joe Depeau, Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, Neo4j | May 23, 2019Reading time: 7 minutes As a graphista, I can often be found evangelising the power of the Neo4j graph database to anyone who’ll listen. Recently, I tried to explain graph databases to my pal Armstrong. The conversation went something like this:“You see, Armstrong, graph theory started in 1736. There was this chap named Leonhard Euler, and he was trying to solve the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem. Königsberg had seven bridges and Euler wanted to compute a path through the city that ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Jessica Dembe and Patrick Elder at GraphConnect New York in October 2017.Presentation SummaryIn this presentation, Jessica Dembe and Patrick Elder provide a look into enterprise architecture at Blackstone Federal and how the introduction of Neo4j automated formerly inefficient processes for the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Dembe and Elder work for Blackstone Federal, working with the U.S. DHS. The work that they do within the Enterprise Architecture Information Repository (EAIR) is done at the command of Congress.When asking the question who uses the ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jason Zagalsky, Federal Account Manager, Neo4j | May 20, 2019Reading time: 2 minutes The use cases for a graph database in government are endless.Graphs are versatile and dynamic. They are the key to solving the challenges you face in fulfilling your mission.Using real-world government use cases, this blog series explains how graphs solve a broad range of complex problems that can’t be solved in any other way. Last week we focused on a case study using Neo4j at IQT, a nonprofit that works with America’s intelligence agencies to identify, invest in ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Adrian Meredith. Performance is key when you’re building a graph visualization product. No matter what browser or device your application runs on, large, complex datasets shouldn’t take ages to load, and chart interactions must be smooth and responsive.But performance isn’t a standalone feature. It’s a key contributor to one of the most important goals of your application design: good user experience.We’ve worked hard to deliver the most powerful network visualization toolkits so your users get the fast and insightful experience they deserve. What makes the performance rates so impressive? It’s all thanks to the Web Graphics ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Frederick Kagan and Sébastien Heymann at GraphConnect New York in October 2018.Presentation SummaryThe American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is an independently-funded nonprofit that uses unclassified information to understand ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Europe to produce forecasts and policy recommendations.Like the intelligence community, and almost any large-scale business analysis team, the nonprofit had to solve problem of munging all their data together into a single interface. They found their solution with the combined power of Neo4j and Linkurious, even though they encountered some ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. “Always ask why,” said Stephen O’Grady, Co-Founder of Redmonk.When deciding what projects to take on, developers should consider the broader context and the implications of what they’re being asked to build. So says Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk, a developer-focused industry analyst firm that tracks, among other things, the top 20 programming languages over time.In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphConnect 2018 in NYC), Stephen O’Grady shared his view of the use cases and future of graph technology. Where do you think graphs fit into the wider tech ecosystem?O’Grady: I think the ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Jan Stücke. After a lot of planning, coding and testing we can finally share the first Release Candidate of ArangoDB 3.5 with you today. You can get it on our Technical Preview Download page: Tech Preview Community & Tech Preview Enterprise. With this RC, we want to highlight two new features for all graph database enthusiasts: the new PRUNE Keyword & k Shortest Path Feature. As always, please note Release Candidates are for testing purposes only and should not be used in production. Please see limitations of RC1 at the bottom of the page! If ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Ryan Boyd, Director of Developer Relations @ Neo4j | May 14, 2019Reading time: 2 minutes At GraphConnect last year, we brought together developers and business leaders from around the world into a single event with 48 sessions, an executive summit, an ecosystem summit and 13 different training classes. We also had very notable keynote presenters, including Hilary Mason (Cloudera Fast Forward Labs) and Stephen O’Grady (Redmonk). It was spectacular to see how much the community and level of interest in graphs has grown, and how graph technology is intersecting with other ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Jason Zagalsky, Federal Account Manager, Neo4j | May 13, 2019Reading time: 2 minutes The use cases for a graph database in government are endless.Graphs are versatile and dynamic. They are the key to solving the challenges you face in fulfilling your mission.Using real-world government use cases, this blog series explains how graphs solve a broad range of complex problems that can’t be solved in any other way. Last week, we took you through a case study with the U.S. Army using Neo4j to help fulfill its mission in areas such as ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. This week we learn how to use graphs for Real Time Inventory and Topology for Network Automation, exploring public contracting data, and filtering connected dynamic forms. There’s also an overhaul to the RDBMS to Graph page and a crash course in how to choose unique identifiers for nodes when using Neo4j-OGM and Spring Data Neo4j. Our featured community member this week is Francesca Ferretti, Head of CIO Governance Architecture in UniCredit Services. Francesca Ferretti – This Week’s Featured Community Member Francesca Ferretti is a true Cypher nerd. As staff unit to the ... Read More