Flavor of the month – Neo4j and Heroku
Neo4j launched a challenge earlier this year called “Seed the Cloud” to get folks to create templates or demo applications on Heroku using the Neo4j add-on. After much internal debate, I decided to...
View ArticleOptimizing Neo4j Cypher queries
Last week, I spent a good number of hours trying to optimize around 20 Cypher queries that were performing disastrously(36866ms to 155575ms) with data from a live system. After some trial and error,...
View ArticleGetting started with the Neo4j Java Rest Binding (Heroku deployment)
Believe it or not, the last couple of days were my first attempt at using Neo4j’s Java Rest Binding. My earlier application on Heroku, Flavorwocky, used the Grails Neo4j plugin and for other stuff...
View ArticleNeo4j Java REST Binding – Part 2 (Batching)
In Part 1, we talked about setting up a connection to the Neo4j Server using the Java REST Binding. Let’s now go into some details about transactions, batching, and what the REST requests really look...
View ArticleIntegrate apps with Neo4j using Zapier
Recently, I was directed to Zapier to get some lightweight integration done between systems for a quick proof of concept. Initially skeptical, I found that it really could save time and tie together...
View ArticleUsing the Neo4j browser with Embedded Neo4j
There are times when you have an application using Neo4j in embedded mode but also need to play around with the graph using the Neo4j web browser. Since the database can be accessed from at most one...
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