Neo4j: WTF Is This Hipster Graph Thingy?

A short presentation I did at Slovenia Ruby User Group meetup.

Video:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4jaZeIAaKY [full length, slovenian]
- http://video.webcamp.si/wc2015_lt_rekar_hipster_graph_thingy/ [lightning, english]

More good things on neo4j:
- http://neo4j.com/
- http://www.neo4j-ruby.org/
- https://www.airpair.com/neo4j/introduction-graph-databases
- http://nosqlasia.org/blog/embracing-reality-with-neo4j

Transcript

1. WTF IS THIS HIPSTER GRAPH THINGY?
2. WHY • natural • graphs are everywhere • easy to think about
3. EXAMPLES • Access Control
4. EXAMPLES • Access Control • Insurance Risk Analysis • Geo Routing • Social Graphs
5. EXAMPLE FOR REALZ • How do I know you? • How do I get to Maribor? • Where should I have lunch?
6. Core Industries & Use Cases: Web / ISV Finance & Insurance Telecomm- unications Network & Data Center Management MDM Social Geo Core Industries & Use Cases: Software Financial Services Telecommu nications Web Social, HR & Recruiting Health Care & Life Sciences Media & Publishing Energy, Services, Automotive, Gov’t, Logistics, Education, Gaming, Other Network & Data Center Management MDM / System of Record Social Geo Identity & Access Mgmt Content Management Recommend-ations BI, CRM, Impact Analysis, Fraud Detection, Resource Optimization, etc. Accenture Finance Energy Aerospace Neo4j Adoption Snapshot Select Commercial Customers (Community Users Not Included)
7. RELATIONAL DB
8. RELATIONAL DB
9. GRAPH DB
10. GRAPH DB • nodes • edges / relationships • properties / attributes
11. NEO4J • NoSQL • open-source • Java/Scala • the most popular graph DB • full DB characteristics (ACID compliance, cluster support, runtime failover)
12. CYPHER • SQL-like • ASCII-ish
13. CYPHER • SQL-like • ASCII-ish SELECT firstname FROM person WHERE person.nickname= 'The Dude' MATCH p:person WHERE p.nickname= 'The Dude' RETURN p.firstname
14. CYPHER • SQL-like • ASCII-ish SELECT firstname FROM person WHERE person.nickname= 'The Dude' MATCH p:person WHERE p.nickname= 'The Dude' RETURN p.firstname FROM person JOIN team ON person.teamid = team.id WHERE person.nickname= 'The Dude' AND team.sport = 'Bowling' MATCH (p:person)-[:in]-(t:team) WHERE p.nickname= 'The Dude' AND t.sport = 'Bowling' RETURN p.firstname, t.name
15. CYPHER • SQL-like • ASCII-ish SELECT firstname FROM person WHERE person.nickname= 'The Dude' MATCH p:person WHERE p.nickname= 'The Dude' RETURN p.firstname FROM person JOIN team ON person.teamid = team.id WHERE person.nickname= 'The Dude' AND team.sport = 'Bowling' MATCH (p:person)-[:in]-(t:team) WHERE p.nickname= 'The Dude' AND t.sport = 'Bowling' RETURN p.firstname, t.name MATCH (p:person)-[*]-(p2:person) WHERE p.nickname= 'The Dude' RETURN p.firstname, p2.firstname
16. DEMO
17. Q&A
18. HVALA @mr_foto @RubySlovenia