Data Consistency Models: ACID vs. BASE Explained
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
August 11, 2023 5 mins read
Learn the difference between ACID and BASE databases and the trade-offs and advantages each consistency model brings to your application’s backend.
Explore: ACID • aggregate stores • base • consistency model • data consistency • graph database • neo4j • nosql • nosql database • relational database
Graph Databases for Beginners: Why Graph Technology Is the Future
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
January 19, 2023 7 mins read
The world of graph technology has changed (and is still changing), so we’re rebooting our “Graph Databases for Beginners” series to reflect what’s new in the world of graph tech – while also helping newcomers catch up to speed with… Read more →
Explore: Big Data • Connected Data • graph database • graph technology • Graph Theory • index free adjacency • native graph database • neo4j • nosql • rdbms
Graphs for Information Services: The 5-Minute Interview With Cyndi Streun
By Angela Zimmerman
August 25, 2022 2 mins read
Graphs are not just something for the researchers, for the universities. There’s a product out there, it’s applicable, it’s in production, it can scale if scale is necessary. It can give you the features you need, take your data, and explore it.
Explore: Federation of State Medical Boards • graph database • graph technology • Information Services • Interview • neo4j • relational database
The New Normal: What I Learned (or Un-Learned) at GraphConnect 2022
By Enzo
June 17, 2022 10 mins read
A tremendous amount of database science is devoted to “normalization.” Time to ask yourself: Who does normalization actually serve?
Explore: graph • graph database • graphconnect • index free adjacency • neo4j • normalization • property graph • relational database • relationships • Scale
You Want Some Join Context? Neo4j Has You Covered
By Enzo
March 1, 2022 5 mins read
Discover how graphs optimize your joins and provide additional, mission-critical context to your data relationships.
Explore: context • cypher • data modeling • graph database • Join • neo4j • query • rdbms • relational database • relationships
This Week in Neo4j – Start Your Graph
By Alexander Erdl
January 15, 2022 4 mins read
Check out what’s new this week in Neo4j, including social recommendations with Slack data and virtual voice assistant for healthcare.
Explore: apache hop • chatbot • etl • Healthcare • neo4j • nosql • recommendation • relational database • social network • twin4j
Mit Java auf NoSQL-Datenbanken zugreifen
By Heise - November 30, 2021
Explore: nosql • nosql database • relational database
Why Think in Tables When You Can Think in Graphs?
By Data & Storage Asean - November 15, 2021
Explore: APAC • graph database • relational database
This Week in Neo4j – More on GraphQL v2, A Focus on Graph Embeddings, and Recommendation Engines with Kafka
By Clair Sullivan
August 21, 2021 5 mins read
Hello, everyone! For this week of Twin4j, we wanted to highlight a few different things. First, we get the chance to take an in-depth look at the newly-released GraphQL library 2.0.0. Next, we are dedicating most of this issue to… Read more →
Explore: Aura • FastRP • graph data science library • graph database • graph embeddings • GraphQL • GraphSAGE • Kafka • node2vec • Recommendation Engine
Top 10 Use Cases: Identity and Access Management
By Jim Webber
March 15, 2021 4 mins read
Graph technology is the future. Not only do graph databases effectively store relationships between data points, but they’re also flexible in adding new kinds of relationships or adapting a data model to new business requirements. But how do companies today… Read more →
Explore: access control • access data • access management • access permissions • data model • graph database • iam • identity management • relational database • use case
Top 10 Use Cases: Master Data Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
March 1, 2021 2 mins read
Discover how to tap into the power of graph databases to organize and manage your master data with a flexible and schema-free database model.
Explore: business applications • customer data • data model • Graph Databases • master data • Master Data Management • MDM • mdm system • relational database • use case
Mapping IoT to the Graph: 5-Minute Interview with Per Gyllstrom
By David Penick
January 15, 2021 < 1 min read
Check out this week’s 5-Minute Interview with Per Gyllstrom, Architecture and Strategy Advisor at Enel X, about his experience with Neo4j.
Explore: 5-minute interview • access control • APIs • Enel X • graph database • GraphTour • IoT • IoT devices • relational database • smart energy
Graph Tech Uncovers Coronavirus Aid Cybercrime
By Finance Digest - September 7, 2020
Explore: graph database • graph technology • relational database
Heading off corona fraud
By Profesional Security - September 3, 2020
Explore: graph algorithms • graph database • neo4j • relational database
Missed Connections: A Tale of a Porsche, Paul Newman and a Relational Database
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 25, 2020 6 mins read
Discover the benefits of a graph database via a story about auctioning off the Porsche 935 Paul Newman co-drove to a second place in the 1979 LeMans race.
Explore: Big Data • data analytics • data science • fraud • graph database • machine learning • Paul Newman • relational database • social media • sql
Mind-Blowing Knowledge Graphs: 5-Minute Interview with Mayank Gupta, SVP of Data, LPL Financial
By David Penick
June 12, 2020 2 mins read
Read this week’s 5-minute interview with Mayank Gupta of LPL financial about how his company uses Neo4j’s graph technology.
Explore: 5-minute interview • blog • data lineage • data model • data quality • Graph Theory • Knowledge Graph • relational database
Graph Databases for Beginners: The Basics of Graph ETL
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 12, 2020 7 mins read
Learn how ETL tools (extract, transform, load) work, including the basics of graph ETL, which converts relational databases to graph databases.
Explore: convert databases • etl process • etl tools • Extract Transform Load • graph database • graph etl • neo4j etl tool • rdbms to graph • relational database • sql to cypher
Leveraging Graphs for GDPR at Convergys
By Corin Gainey
March 4, 2020 15 mins read
Lloyd Byrd discusses how the addition of graph technology helped Convergys solve more than just their issues around the latest EU GDPR directive.
Explore: Big Data • Connected Data • data model • Data Visualization • graph database • Graph Theory • graph visualization • graphconnect • neo4j • relational database
Deep Access Control: 5-Minute Interview with Manish Jain
By David Penick
December 20, 2019 5 mins read
In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour DC 2019), we discuss how Manish Jain and his team at NTT Data use Neo4j.
Explore: 5-minute interview • graph database • graph technology • Manish Jain • NTT Data Services • relational database • sql
Graph Databases for Beginners: Wait, What Do You Mean by “Graph”?
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 16, 2019 8 mins read
Learn the difference between a graph and a chart, including the basics of nodes and relationships as well as graph theory and its application to databases.
Explore: chart • Connected Data • data model • graph • graph data model • graph database • graph technology • Graph Theory • network • relational database
Capturing Relationships: 5-Minute Interview with Forrest Swope
By David Penick
November 8, 2019 4 mins read
Check out this interview with Forrest Swope, Manager of Data Operations at UVA, who uses Neo4j to illuminate why students do or don’t thrive.
Explore: 5-minute interview • graph database • graph relationships • graph technology • neo4j • relational database
Not Everyone Is a Data Scientist: 5-Minute Interview with Sony Green
By David Penick
October 25, 2019 7 mins read
In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour SF 2019), we discuss how Sony Green and his team use Neo4j with GraphXR.
Explore: 5-minute interview • cybersecurity • exploration • graph database • graph technology • Healthcare • healthcare data • relational database • Russian Twitter trolls • Sony Green
Turning Data Into Actionable Knowledge: 5-Minute Interview with David Meza
By David Penick
October 4, 2019 3 mins read
Check out this 5-minute interview with David Meza, Chief Knowledge Architect at Johnson Space Center, about how Neo4j has helped NASA.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Connected Data • cypher • Data Visualization • David Meza • engineers • graph database • graph technology • graph visualization • Knowledge Graph
SQL Server Advocate Turns Graph:
5-Minute Interview with Dee Pandian
By David Penick
September 20, 2019 3 mins read
Check out this 5-minute interview with Dee Pandian, Deputy Director of CyForce at Jacobs Engineering about making the switch from SQL to graphs.
Explore: CyForce • Dee Pandian • ETL tool • facebook • graph database • GraphTour DC 2019 • Jacobs Engineering • linkedin • neo4j • Neo4j ETL
It’s All in the Relationships: 15 Rules of a Native Graph Database
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 9, 2019 4 mins read
Learn all the rules of what makes up a native graph database and its deep search advantages over NoSQL relational databases.
Explore: ACID • cypher • graph database platform • index free adjacency • labeled property graph • native graph database • neo4j • nosql • relational database