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 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

This is a blog series on using the Neo4j NoSQL database. Introduction I have been around databases for 30 years starting out with IDMS on ICL mainframes. That progressed into Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. I have cut my teeth on relational databases however; the one size fits all no longer applies anymore. Those previous … More Neo4j Database – Part 01 – Foundation