In part two we defined our API and got registering a user, checking a user and getting a user profile. A social network of unconnected people doesn’t live up to its name, so let’s go ahead and build the ability to follow people.
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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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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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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.
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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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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Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 4
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.
Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 3
If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2 then do that first or you’ll have no clue what I’m doing, and I’d like to be the only one not knowing what I’m doing.
We’ve built the beginnings of this database but so far it’s just a library and for it to be a proper database we need to be able to talk to it. Following the Neo4j footsteps, we will wrap a web server around our database and see how it performs.
There are a ton of Java based frameworks and micro-frameworks out there. Not as bad as the Javascript folks, but that still leaves us with a lot of choices. So as any developer would do I turn to benchmarks done by other people of stuff that doesn’t apply to me, and you won’t believe what I found –scratch that, yes you will, I got benchmarks.
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OUR OWN MULTI-MODEL DATABASE – PART 2
If you haven’t read part 1 then do that first or this won’t make sense, well nothing makes sense but this specially won’t.
So before going much further I decided to benchmark our new database and found that our addNode speed is phenomenal, but it was taking forever to create relationships. See some JMH benchmarks below:
Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units ChronicleGraphBenchmark.measureCreateEmptyNodes thrpt 10 1548.235 ± 556.615 ops/s ChronicleGraphBenchmark.measureCreateEmptyNodesAndRelationships thrpt 10 0.165 ± 0.007 ops/s
Each time I was creating 1000 users, so this test shows us we can create over a million empty nodes in one second. Yeah ChronicleMap is damn fast. But then when I tried to create 100 relationships for each user (100,000 total) it was taking forever (about 6 seconds). So I opened up YourKit and you won’t believe what I found out next (come on that’s some good clickbait).
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Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 1
I may be remembering this wrong, but I think it was Henry Rollins who once asked, “What came first, the shitty Multi-Model Databases or the Drugs?” His confusion was over whether:
A) there were a bunch of developers dicking around with their Mac laptops and they wrote a shitty database, put it on github, posted on hacker news, and then other developers who were on drugs started using it or…
B) there were a bunch of developers on ketamine and ecstasy and somebody said lets write a shitty database
I think “A” is what probably happens and how we end up with over 300 databases on DB Engines. But what about “B” ? Well I don’t have any good stuff lying around, but I did hurt my foot the other day and the doctors gave me some Tramadol, so lets down some of that and see what happens.
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