Neo4jClient turns 3.0

By Charlotte

Well, version wise anyhow! This is a pretty big release and is one I’ve been working on for a while now (sorry!). Version 3.0 of the client finally adds support for Bolt. When Neo4j released version 3.0 of their database, they added a new binary protocol called Bolt designed to be faster and easier on…

Better Know APOC #2: apoc.graph.fromDB

By Charlotte

Neo4j.Version 3.0.0 APOC Version 3.3.0.1 If you haven’t already, please have a look at the intro post to this series, it’ll cover stuff which I’m not going to go into on this. Back at the beginning of this series (if you can remember that far!) I talked about using apoc.export.csv.* – and I showed that…

Better Know APOC #1: apoc.export.csv.*

By Charlotte

Neo4j Version 3.3.0 APOC Version 3.3.0.1 If you haven’t already, please have a look at the intro post to this series, it’ll cover stuff which I’m not going to go into on this. We’re going to start with the Export functions – in particular exporting to CSV, mainly as people have asked about it –…

Better Know APOC #0: Introduction

By Charlotte

As all developers in good languages know – arrays and blog series start at 0, not 1 (sorry VB developers) so this is the introductory post to the upcoming series about APOC and it’s procedures etc. What is APOC? APOC stands for Awesome Procedures On Cypher – and is a large collection of community functions…

Excel & Neo4j? Let’s code that! (VSTO edition)

By Charlotte

So you have a new Graph Database, it’s looking snazzy and graphy and all that, but, well – you really want to see it in a tabular format, ‘cos you’ve got this Excel program hanging about, and well – who doesn’t love a bit of tabular data? Obviously there are loads of reasons why you…

Using PowerBI with Neo4j

By Charlotte

There’s an excellent post by Cédric Charlier over at his blog about hooking Neo4j into PowerBI. It’s simple to follow and get’s you up and running, but I (as a PowerBI newbie) had a couple of spots where I ran into trouble – generally with assumptions I think that are made assuming that you know…

Writing a Stored Proc in Neo4j for .NET Developers

By Charlotte

I’m a .NET developer and I have been for about 13 years or so now, predominantly in C#, but I originally (in my university days) started off programming in Java. Now, I’ve not touched Java for roughly 13 years, and I’m pretty happy with that situation. 3 years(ish) ago I started using Neo4j – as…

So you want to go Causal Neo4j in Azure? Sure we can do that

By Charlotte

So you might have noticed in the Azure market place you can install an HA instance of Neo4j – Awesomeballs! But what about if you want a Causal cluster? Hello Manual Operation! Let’s start with a clean slate, typically in Azure you’ve probably got a dashboard stuffed full of other things, which can be distracting,…