Graphing on the edge
Neo just released their 3.1 version; although I was using it for development already it's always good to update the production servers as soon [...]
Migrating data to the graph with APOC and JDBC
At a recent meetup here in Amsterdam the uber friendly Stefan Armbruster showed how to do fun stuf with the APOC. Although I did play [...]
Dealing with Neo4J 3.1 BETA gotcha’s
Inspired by yesterdays Graph meetup on the new features of Neo4J I decided to bite the bullet and switch our current development for the Historiana project [...]
Sleeping on the beach
When migrating data from legacy systems to Neo4J there are various ways to choose from. There is this high-speed specialised import tool /usr/bin/neo4j-import which offline prepares [...]
Adding magic by automation
Working on several projects at once can be a bit hectic at times. But it also creates the opportunity to stand back for a moment [...]
Moving data out of the rows and into the Graph
Recently we started working on a project which involves an existing database stored safely in a Microsoft SQL Server. I knew that Sybase is the [...]
Timing Uniqueness
[aka: A case of investigating the possibilities of premature optimisation in a not-even-started project] In MySQL days getting an unique key was a matter of [...]
Get rid of the model, get into the Graph!
According to the logs I did my first check-in of Neo4J related code on Mon May 19 16:49:11 2014 +0200 With hindsight I wished I had [...]
Merge: inspecting the unexpected
While creating a proof-of-concept import for an existing website I needed to associate paths with downloads which are stored in two separate workbooks in an [...]
Drawing the Graph
When researching enormous amounts of navigational data creating a hierarchical graph of the data can be very insightful. One of our long-term customers has a [...]