Category: Graph Databases

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Deb Cameron. A graph database like Neo4j allows much greater flexibility than a traditional relational database, and this is especially true for businesses that need to be able to visualize the connections in their data.In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour NYC 2019), Anurag Tandon shares his thoughts on Bloom, Neo4j’s graph visualization, exploration and communication tool. Why did Neo4j create Bloom?Graphs are inherently visual, and whenever somebody’s expressing a problem as a graph, they naturally go to the whiteboard and draw it.Drawing a graph is very useful when you want to think ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Criminals are constantly finding new and more sophisticated ways to commit fraud. Every technological development presents new opportunities for illicit activities, and few more so than the evolution of digital currencies.As cryptocurrency is likely to play a big role in the future of finance, link analysts need graph visualization fraud detection tools that are up to the job. When you visualize a Bitcoin block you spot distinct shapes and patterns right away. What do they tell us about the data? In this post, we explore how graph technologies help analysts understand patterns ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hi graph gang, I’m back to take over the TWIN4j reins. Thanks to Jennifer, Will, and Lju for curating the weekly graph news in my absence. In this week’s video, Calin Constantinov shows us how to make graph patterns show themselves in various datasets. We had the launch of the Neo4j BI Connector, TasoX explores Windows Events, and Rik begins his journey into the world of supply chain management. And finally, several COVID-19 related projects have been created. Be sure to check those out, and if you have free time, I’m sure ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Keith Hare has joined the Neo4j team to spearhead language standards efforts. My name is Philip Rathle, Neo4j’s VP of Product Management, and I got a chance to sit down with Keith to discuss his thoughts on databases, standards and the future of the industry. Philip Rathle: Welcome to the team, Keith. As the Convenor for the ISO committees for SQL and now for the GQL Project you’re a busy person. What have you been up to?Keith Hare: While I am spending a significant amount of time working with the Neo4j LANGSTAR ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. With the escalating spread of COVID-19, our global economy and healthcare infrastructure systems have been impacted in an unimaginable way now and into the unforeseeable future.For many, especially those on the front lines, it’s an uncontrollable chaos. For others, the world has come to a complete standstill. We have never needed the support of one another as much as we need it now. As Neo4j’s Community Manager, I work with developers, data scientists, researchers and other practitioners on a daily basis and I’m fortunate to have such a strong, passionate and kind ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Ewout Prangsma. ArangoDB Oasis, the cloud service of ArangoDB, has been available for a few months now and is growing quickly. The Oasis team got a lot of requests to provide more ways to manage deployments, access policies and other aspects of Oasis. After adding support for Azure earlier this year, we’re now opening up the Oasis API for all supported cloud providers like Google Cloud and AWS. What is it (not)? So what is the API about and what can you do with it? And didn’t ArangoDB already have an API? How is this ... Read More

Feed: Cambridge Intelligence. Author: Dan Williams. Cyber security analysts have a tough job. IP information, server logs, communications records: the data they need to understand is big, complex, and generated every millisecond. If they don’t do it well, important alerts get missed, network vulnerabilities are exploited and post-attack forensics lack insight.Data visualization is the best way to uncover the vital threat information lying hidden amongst rows and rows of tabular information.We’re all used to seeing cyber security data visualized in films or on TV. Often the visualizations are big, beautiful – and scary.Retro cyber data visualizations, from Wargames (1983), United ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Over 10 years ago, Neo4j introduced the world’s first native graph database and defined an entirely new category of enterprise software. Since then, Neo4j has been hard at work helping our customers realize the value of the connections between their data. The world’s appetite for harnessing these connections has only increased with the advent of hyperscale computing, social networks, mobile and IOT devices. With all of these new data sources comes… you guessed it, complexity. As more and more companies adopt Neo4j into their enterprise environment and begin to realize value from ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Deb Cameron. Modern applications come with new requirements. Such applications incorporate intelligence and learning. They require full context to support smart decision-making in real time. Such applications require unlimited scalability and granular strong security. But perhaps most of all, these applications must embrace and enable change and innovation. From data models to infrastructure, the Neo4j Graph Database makes it easy to fluidly evolve your solution as business requirements change.Last week, in blog three of our four-part series on the future of the intelligent application, we looked at the power of applying granular security to ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Joerg Schad. TL;DR ArangoDB has supported two storage engines for a while: RocksDB and MMFiles. While ArangoDB started out with just the MMFiles storage engine in its early days, RocksDB became the default storage engine in the 3.4 release. Due to its drawbacks ArangoDB 3.6 deprecated the old MMFiles storage engine and with the upcoming 3.7 release we plan to fully remove support. This blog post will provide the background of why storage engines matter, why we chose to deprecate the MMFiles storage engine, and what you should be aware of when migrating from MMFiles ... Read More