In the last blog I went over the Azure REST API and the format of the URI’s. I also explained that we require an OAuth2 Bearer token in order to authenticate with the REST API. In this blog I will show how we register a client application in Azure in order to request a bearer … More Azure REST API – Part 02 – Register Client Application
In this series of blogs I want to show how we access the Azure REST API directly using Postman in order to understand how applications can get authenticated and authorized automatically without having the user enter a username and password. Overview The Azure REST API is the under pinning’s for all the other client access … More Azure REST API – Part 01 – Introduction
In the last blog I discussed transactions. In this blog I want to highlight the scalability and high availability features available in Neo4j. RDBMS’s are designed to run on big boxes. Scaling is done virtually by throwing more hardware at the server. This is in complete contract to NoSQL databases which are designed to be … More Neo4j Database – Part 09 – Scalability
In the last blog I showed some sample queries. In this blog I will explain how transactions are used. Overview NoSQL databases typically follow the BASE principal and RDBMS’s follow the ACID principal. Neo4j is actually fully ACID compliant. What is quite strange about the Cypher language is that it does not have any commands … More Neo4j Database – Part 08 – Transactions
In the last blog I took the Northwind database and converted it to a Neo4j graph database model. In this blog I will run some sample Cypher queries. Cypher Query Language It is not my intention to give a tutorial on using Cypher rather than give some simple examples. There are entire books on the … More Neo4j Database – Part 07 – Northwind Queries
In the last blog I discussed the various types of data loading options Neo4j offers. In this blog I will take the Northwind database and convert it to a Neo4j graph database model. Contents Converting an RDBMS Model Data Types Converting Tables that do not participate in Joins Converting One to One/One to Many Joins … More Neo4j Database – Part 06 – Creating Our Data Model
In the last blog I described the Cypher object notation used by the query language. In this blog I will describe how to manually create nodes and relationships and then how to do this more efficiently by importing data. Contents Creating Nodes and Relationships by Hand Unique Constraints Merge Command Bulk Loading Data Options Creating … More Neo4j Database – Part 05 – Data Loading Options
In the last blog I described the objects that make up a Neo4j database. In this blog I will discuss how we create each database object. It would be impossible to learn Neo4j without learning the Cypher query language. At the time of writing the UI and the most popular client query libraries all rely … More Neo4j Database – Part 04 – Cypher Object Notation
In the last blog I introduced some neo4j basics for managing a database and how to interact with it. In this blog I will begin to uncover the objects that make up a Neo4j database. This is very important when it comes to defining the correct data model. You will be pleased to know that … More Neo4j Database – Part 03 – Database Objects
In the last blog I introduced Neo4j. In this blog I will cover some of the basics. Desktop Interface I installed Neo4j Desktop and then clicked on the icon to launch. I have to start off and say that the UI is not that impressive. In fact after doing some searching around, there is not … More Neo4j Database – Part 02 – Basics
Denham Coder 