This is a blog series on using the Neo4j NoSQL database.
Introduction
I have been around databases for 30 years starting out with IDMS on ICL mainframes. That progressed into Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. I have cut…
In the last blog I discussed NULLs and data denormalization. The code can be found on Github here. In this blog I will show how we can apply filters to our data.
Filtering data is limiting the data returned based…
In the previous blog I highlighted the scalability and high availability features available in Redis. In this blog I will show how a demo application uses Redis to cache searches sent to Twitter. The code can be found on Github…
In the last blog I introduced Neo4j. In this blog I will cover some of the basics.
Desktop Interface
I installed Neo4j Desktop and then clicked on the icon to launch.
I have to start off…
This is a blog series on using the Redis NoSQL database.
Introduction
I have been around databases for 30 years starting out with IDMS on ICL mainframes. That progressed into Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. I have cut…
In the last blog I discussed the various types of data loading options Neo4j offers. In this blog I will take the Northwind database and convert it to a Neo4j graph database model.
Contents
Converting an RDBMS Model…
In the last blog I introduced the Redis data types. In this blog I will cover how we create our first data model and some queries. The code can be found on Github here.
Relational Background
A lot…
In the last blog I described the Cypher object notation used by the query language. In this blog I will describe how to manually create nodes and relationships and then how to do this more efficiently by importing data.
Contents…
In the last blog I introduced some Redis basics. In this blog I will cover the datatypes supported which is extremely important in order to create the correct data model.
Data Types
Redis has the following different datatypes…
In the last blog I introduced Redis. In this blog I will cover some of the basics.
Command Line Interface
You can interact with the Redis server using the redis-cli command line interface. Here I am checking…