Category: Neo4j

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. The votes are in.This past June, national standards bodies around the world – belonging to ISO/IEC’s Joint Technical Committee 1 (responsible for IT standards) – began voting on the GQL project proposal.Graph Query Language (GQL) is a new language being developed and maintained by the same international working group that also maintains the SQL standard.Now, it’s official: Earlier this week, the ballot closed and the proposal passed, with seven countries putting experts forward to work on the four-year project.GQL draws heavily from existing languages, but the main inspiration has so far been ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. This week we preview the GRANDstack and GraphQL talks at the NODES 2019 conference and we learn how to build a data warehouse with Neo4j. Stefan Dreverman continues his series on building questionnaires using Neo4j, Jan Zak teaches us how to scale up d3.js graph visualisations, and we have a GRANDstack movies demo app. Mark Needham and the Developer Relations team Our featured community member this week is Betsy Hilliard, Senior Scientist at Valkyrie Intelligence. Betsy Hilliard – This Week’s Featured Community Member Betsy is a classic graph-nerd who is fortunate enough ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight.Last time, our EIC, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, pointed us to the newly released “The Laundromat,” a film about the Panama Papers. Have you seen it yet?This week, Neo4j recently released a short, enticing video for GraphConnect 2020, and why not share some of that excitement over here? Plus, we’re encouraging you to register now because there’s a little over two weeks left for early bird pricing! After October 1, the ticket price ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Almost a decade ago, Neo4j took off as a transactional graph database management platform. Just a year after its initial launch, a new, powerful query language called Cypher was introduced to allow expressive, efficient querying and other interactions with the graph data in Neo4j. Today, Neo4j supports graph analytics including implementation of a wide variety of state-of-the-art graph algorithms with custom optimizations for Neo4j’s graph database model. It achieves unmatched performance in scalability, routinely running millions or even billions of nodes and edges.The next natural step for the platform in 2019 is ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Like a complex system grid or an air-traffic-control map, a graph database is represented as a network of nodes and connections called a labeled property graph. The nodes, which appear as circles or squares, represent entities such as people, products, companies or orders.In Neo4j, the connections between database nodes are called relationships, and those relationships are as important as the nodes they connect. Each relationship is directional and knows its beginning and ending node, and each node knows about all other nodes with which it has an inbound or outbound relationship – ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hello everybody! I’m back after a few weeks off. Thanks to Jennifer and Will for writing TWIN4j in my absence, I enjoyed reading their take on the week’s graph related news. This week we preview the modeling talks at the NODES 2019 conference and we have network analysis of the Prisoners of Zenda book. We learn how to build a questionnaire with Neo4j, there’s a video introducing Spring Data Neo4j RX, and a new release of the Neo4j for Kettle plugin. Mark Needham and the Developer Relations team Our featured community member ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Deb Cameron. “The feedback we receive from participants is that together we accomplish an impressive amount of work in just a week, even on projects that they’ve been thinking about, working on, and POC’ing for years,” said Alessandro Svensson, head of Innovation Labs at Neo4j. In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour San Francisco 2019), we spoke with Alessandro Svensson about the Neo4j Innovation Lab’s work accelerating companies’ time to validate Neo4j and the way graph databases serve many use cases within enterprises.Tell me about the Neo4j Innovation Lab.Alessandro Svensson: The Neo4j Innovation ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. It is very likely that you are reading this blog post because a recommendation algorithm decided that it belonged on your feed. It’s also likely that your decision to read this is now being fed back into the very same algorithm that brought you here. This, along with the rest of your data, is used to populate the ads decorating the sides of your feed and generating the revenue that keeps the servers running. In simple terms, a recommender system is an algorithm that suggests items or decisions to a user or ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Leading up to our first-ever Neo4j Online Developer Expo and Summit (NODES 2019), we’re planning a worldwide virtual hackathon with our community! Neo4j community members of all experience levels are encouraged to participate. This is a great opportunity to connect with and learn from hackers across the world.Hackers will have four full weeks to work on their project submissions. One week before the live broadcast of Neo4j Online Developer Expo and Summit (NODES 2019), we will publish the projects and allow the global Neo4j community and Neo4j staff to vote on the ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. Andddd, we’re off! The Global GraphHack has officially kicked-off!With over 450 registered hackers, this is officially the World’s Largest GraphHack in History!Theme: Extending the Graph EcosystemYour task is to build something – using or extending Neo4j – that benefits others in the community. It can be an extension of something that already exists or something completely new. Code and documentation must be shared and explained.Here are some ideas to get your mind wandering: Participants can hack individually, form their own team with friends or colleagues, or team up with other Neo4j community ... Read More