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Apr 03 2017

Building a Twitter Clone with Neo4j – Part Two

One of the aspects of my job that I love is the week long proof of concept bootcamps. What it entail is me (or one of my team members) coming onsite to work with your team to build out a POC in just one week. They all vary some what, but I try to stick to a formula that works for me. I spend the first day with the whole team ironing out the Model. This is the trickiest part to get right, because if the model is right, the queries will fall right into place. If the model has to be changed significantly on day 3 let’s say, then a ton of work has to be redone or at least greatly modified. The goal of the end of day one is to have something that looks like the following:
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Tagged graph database, java, neo4j, network, performance, relationship graph, social network, software, technology

Mar 30 2017

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Cypher, Problems

Building a Twitter Clone with Neo4j – Part One

Would you believe there is no shortage of Twitter Clone example applications…maybe because they are easy to replicate (ba dum tss, I’ll be here all week.) The earliest one I remember was written by Salvatore Sanfilippo creator of Redis.
It’s a pretty good read, where he explains the basics of Redis (a Key Value store on steroids) and how to model a social network in it. One of the interesting bits to me is how the status updates (tweets) are handled.
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Tagged graph database, java, neo4j, network, nosql, performance, relationship graph, social network, software, technology

Mar 20 2017

Searching for objects using multiple dimensions

Lets take a look at a scenario where you are trying to search for things by their attributes, not their description. They can be users, documents, or any object that could be described by discrete values in multiple dimensions. What does that mean exactly? Well, let me give you an example: searching for a dog. My family includes 2 four legged furry creatures named Tyler and Ronnie. They are my half lab, half golden retrievers. Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, from teacup breeds with adult weights around 5 lbs, to giant Mastiff breeds over 150 lbs. But most people don’t care exactly how much a dog weights, only their general size.

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Tagged big data, graph database, graph databases, neo4j, network, nosql, performance, relationship graph, software, technology

Feb 06 2017

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Cypher, Java, Problems

Neo4j is faster than MySQL in performing recursive query

A user on StackOverflow was wondering about the performance between Neo4j and MySQL for performing a recursive query. They started with Neo4j performing the query in 240 seconds. Then an optimized cypher query got them down to 40 seconds. Then I got them down to…
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Tagged cypher, github, graph, graph database, graph databases, java, neo4j, network, performance, relationship graph, software, testing

Jan 26 2017

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Cypher, Java

Writing a Cypher Stored Procedure

I’ve been so busy these last 6 months I just finally got around to watching Luke Cage on Netflix. The season 1 episode 5 intro is Jidenna performing “Long live the Chief” and it made me pause the series while I figured out who that was. I’m mostly a hard rock and heavy metal guy, but I do appreciate great pieces of lyrical work and this song made me take notice. Coincidently on the Neo4j Users Slack (get an invite) @sleo asked…
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Tagged cypher, github, graph, graph database, graph databases, java, neo4j, network, relationship graph, software, technology

Jan 18 2017

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Java, Problems, Visualization

Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 5

shitty5

In part 4 I promised metrics and a shell, so that’s what we’ll tackle today. We are lucky that the Metrics library can be plugged into Jooby without much effort… and double lucky that the Crash library can also be plugged into Jooby without much effort. This is what we are all about here because we’re a bunch of lazy, impatient developers who are ignorant of the limits of our capabilities and who would rather reuse open source code instead of falling victim to the “Not Invented Here” syndrome and do everything from scratch.
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Tagged graph, graph database, graph databases, java, network, performance, software, technology, visualization

Jan 10 2017

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Java, Problems

Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 4

shitty4

Please read parts 1, 2 and 3 before continuing or you’ll be lost.

We started adding an HTTP server to our database last time and created just a couple of end points. Today we’ll finish out the rest of the end points. We’ll also be good open source developers by hooking in Continuous Integration , Test Coverage and Continuous Deployment.

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Tagged graph database, graph databases, java, network, performance, relationship graph, software, technology, testing

Jan 06 2017

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Java, Problems

Multi-Threading a Traversal

multi-threads

What would you think if I ran out of time,
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your eyes and I’ll write you a post
And I’ll try not to run out of memory.

Oh, I get by with a little help from my threads
Mm, I get high with a little help from my threads
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my threads

Today we are going to take a look at how to take a Neo4j traversal and split it up into lots of smaller traversals. I promise it will be electrifying.
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Tagged graph, graph database, graph databases, java, neo4j, network, performance, technology

Oct 28 2016

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Cypher, Problems

News Feeds

Ron Burgundy (in Anchorman) gets Hungry

The “News Feed” is a core feature of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, or Vine (RIP). Let’s take a look at how we could model and implement this in Neo4j. Our social network needs Users (otherwise it would be kinda empty) that FOLLOW each other (otherwise it would not be very social). Those users need to POST some Messages (otherwise it would be boring). Here is our first attempt at a model (using Arrows):
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Tagged graph, graph database, neo4j, network, news feed, nosql, relationship graph, social network

Sep 28 2016

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Java, Problems, Random

Delivering a Graph Based Search solution to slightly wrong data

When it comes to databases, having good clean data is always important. More so with Graphs which deal with concepts as nodes and their relationships between them. Inevitably, you will run into messy data and have to deal with it. In a lot of the projects our customers work on they are dealing with connecting multiple data sources to get to a “golden record” or single source of truth. A lofty goal, sometimes impossible to achieve, but we can use the relationships of the data to help us come close.

One option is to extract the features (or tags) of a composite object and see if any other object shares most of these features. If that is the case then they are possibly the same object and should be merged instead of creating a new record. A partial subgraph match is something akin to a recommendation engine in Neo4j and pretty trivial to write. Take a look back at a few old blog posts for ideas.
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Tagged big data, graph database, graph search, java, neo4j, network, performance, relationship graph, search, software, technology

Max De Marzi

Graphs, Graphs, and nothing but the Graphs

Tag Archives: network

Searching for objects using multiple dimensions

Neo4j is faster than MySQL in performing recursive query

Writing a Cypher Stored Procedure

Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 5

Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 4

Multi-Threading a Traversal

Delivering a Graph Based Search solution to slightly wrong data