Neo4j vs Relational: Refactoring – Extracting node/table

In my previous blog post I showed how to add a new property/field to a node with a label/record in…

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Neo4j: A procedure for the SLM clustering algorithm

In the middle of last year I blogged about the Smart Local Moving algorithm which is used for community detection…

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Neo4j: Specific relationship vs Generic relationship + property

For optimal traversal speed in Neo4j queries we should make our relationship types as specific as possible. Let’s take a…

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NoSQL vs. SQL: Choosing a Data Management Solution

Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Distributed systems: the CAP theorem 3. Relational data stores 3.1. MySQL / MariaDB 3.2.…

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Neo4j: The football transfers graph

Given we’re still in pre season transfer madness as far as European football is concerned I thought it’d be interesting…

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R: Scraping Neo4j release dates with rvest

As part of my log analysis I wanted to get the Neo4j release dates which are accessible from the release…

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Northwind: Finding direct/transitive Reports in SQL and Neo4j’s Cypher

Every few months we run a relational to graph meetup at the Neo London office where we go through how…

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Neo4j: The BBC Champions League graph

A couple of weekends ago I started scraping the BBC live text feed of the Bayern Munich/Barcelona match, initially starting…

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Neo4j: The foul revenge graph

Last week I was showing the foul graph to my colleague Alistair who came up with the idea of running…

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