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Neo4j Graph Intelligence Platform
Company blog · blog.neo4j.org/blogdataprogramming
Neo4j Graph Intelligence Platform is the company blog at blog.neo4j.org, writing about data and programming. Since 2009, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Neo4j can now contain 32 billion nodes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Neo4j graph database company blog as a reference for Neo4j examples, scale claims, GraphGist challenges, Heroku integration, and licensing announcements.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Follow the Neo4j graph database blog to stay up to date with all of the latest from the world's leading graph database.
Most-linked posts?
- Neo4j can now contain 32 billion nodes2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-06-22
- Social Networks in the database: Using a Graph Database2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-17
What Hacker News says?
See http://blog.neo4j.org/2013/11/why-graph-databases-are-best-t... on how to use Neo4j for the mentioned Diaspora cases (Neo4j was actually proposed back in 2010 to the team). Comments are very welcome.
Comment linking /2013/11/why-graph-databases-are-best-tool-for-handling-connected-data-like-diaspora.html
on “Why You Should Never Use MongoDB”Submitted Neo4j 1.7 Released as a story · 44 points
HN discussionFlask has become my framework of choice because it's incredibly well designed, the code is clean, and also because it's decoupled from an ORM. Rails and Django emerged at a time when RDBMS ruled, and they were both built around an ORM. Now you have more database options that have less of an impedance mismatch, but because Rails and Django are so ORM-centric, forgoing the RDBMS in favor of another option means you no…
Comment linking /2011/03/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-m04-size-really.html
on “Flask 0.7 Released (Python Web Framework)”Submitted Neo4j 1.4 M04 introduces Cypher, a graph query language as a story · 34 points
HN discussionYou could embed a Google Spreadsheet ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/major-update-in-goo... ) and use Google Apps Script to feed it data from your database ( http://code.google.com/googleapps/appsscript/service_spreads... ). Here's an example of how to connect a Google Spreadsheet to Neo4j running on Heroku ( http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/12/neo4j-labs-heroku-neo4j-and-go... ).
Comment linking /2011/12/neo4j-labs-heroku-neo4j-and-google.html
on “37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you just remaking a spreadsheet?”Submitted Neo4j 1.4 M01 "Kiruna Stol" released as a story · 28 points
HN discussionGraphs are a much more elegant way of storing relational data. With graph databases you don't have to mess with tables or joins -- everything is implicitly joined. And Neo4j rocks -- store 32 billion nodes ( http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/03/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-m04-size... ) with 2 million traversals per second ( http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/02/neo4j-10 ), and you can use Gremlin with it (the graph traversal languag…
Comment linking /2011/03/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-m04-size-really.html
on “List of graph databases”Submitted The current database debate and graph databases as a story · 28 points
HN discussionFor interactive neo4j examples see: http://blog.neo4j.org/2013/10/the-first-graphgist-challenge-...
Comment linking /2013/10/the-first-graphgist-challenge-completed.html?m=1
on “Graph databases and Python”Submitted The Neo4j REST Server - Part1: Get it going as a story · 22 points
HN discussionPlease note that this post talks about Neo4j Community. Neo4j is now split into three editions: * Neo4j Community, a high performance, fully ACID transactional graph database – licensed under the GPL * Neo4j Advanced, adding advanced monitoring – licensed under the AGPL or a commercial license * Neo4j Enterprise, adding online backup and High Availability clustering – licensed under AGPL or commercial See more in th…
Comment linking /2011/04/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-released.html
on “Neo4j Graph Database re-licensed under GPLv3”Submitted Modeling categories in a graph database as a story · 22 points
HN discussionMax de Marzi created some beautiful visualizations using d3.js for the Neo4j Heroku Challenge ( http://blog.neo4j.org/2012/03/heroku-challengers-vote-now.ht... ).
Comment linking /2012/03/heroku-challengers-vote-now.html
on “Data driven documents with d3.js”Submitted Mashups with the Facebook Graph API and Neo4j as a story · 19 points
HN discussionFor the Neo4j graph database, check out: * the 10 minute code-level getting started guide: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Getting_Started_Guide * a full-blown reference example, including diagrams, graph layout screen shots, code walk through etc: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/IMDB_Example * the domain modeling gallery, which shows how to model a bunch of domains in a graph db: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Domain_Mo…
Comment linking /2009/09/social-networks-in-database-using-graph.html
on “Ask HN: Introduction to NoSQL?”Submitted Neo4j 1.4 M05 - Autoindexing, REST Paging, Cypher aggregates as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYou should add the Neo4j ( http://neo4j.org/ ) graph database to the list. Graphs are a much more modern and elegant way of storing relational data. I've used Postgres for over 10 years, but it's not a graph database. With graph databases you don't have to mess with tables or joins -- everything is implicitly joined. And Neo4j is ridiculously sweet -- store 32 billion nodes ( http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/03/neo4j-13-a…
Comment linking /2011/03/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-m04-size-really.html
on “Poll: What database does your company use?”Submitted Neo4j 1.2 Final - Prêt-à-Porter as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j 2.0 GA - Graphs for Everyone as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j 1.8 Release - Fluent Graph Literacy as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j 1.8 Released, Now with Mutating Cypher as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j - Community matters. You matter. as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graph Database Neo4j 1.9 GA released as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j Spatial, Part1: Finding things close to other things as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j development news as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The top 10 ways to get to know Neo4j: Neo4j v1.0 released after 10 years of dev as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j 2.0.0-M01 Released as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rabbithole, a Neo4j live REPL console-in-URL as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neo4j 1.4.1 “Kiruna Stol” GA available as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Access control lists the graph database way as a story · 4 points
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