Neo4j: Making implicit relationships explicit & bidirectional relationships

I recently read Michal Bachman’s post about bidirectional relationships in Neo4j in which he suggests that for some relationship types…

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Neo4j: Exploring new data sets with help from Neo4j browser

One of the things that I’ve found difficult when looking at a new Neo4j database is working out the structure…

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neo4j/cypher: Getting the hang of query parameters

For as long as I’ve been using neo4j‘s cypher query language Michael has been telling me to use parameters in…

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Graph Processing: Betweeness Centrality – neo4j’s cypher vs graphstream

Last week I wrote about the betweenness centrality algorithm and my attempts to understand it using graphstream and while reading…

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Neo4j Java REST Binding – Part 2 (Batching)

In Part 1, we talked about setting up a connection to the Neo4j Server using the Java REST Binding. Let’s…

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Getting started with the Neo4j Java Rest Binding (Heroku deployment)

Believe it or not, the last couple of days were my first attempt at using Neo4j’s Java Rest Binding. My…

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Mini Search Engine – Just the basics, using Neo4j, Crawler4j, Graphstream and Encog

Continuing to chapter 4 of Programming Collection Intelligence  (PCI) which is implementing a search engine. I may have bitten off…

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Testing Spring Data Neo4j Applications with NoSQLUnit

Spring Data Neo4j is the project within Spring Data project which provides an extension to the Spring programming model for…

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Optimizing Neo4j Cypher queries

Last week, I spent a good number of hours trying to optimize around 20 Cypher queries that were performing disastrously(36866ms…

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