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By: Ashwin Jayaprakash

Ashwin Jayaprakash — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:26:07 +0000

This is good news. Good luck to you guys!

I just hope you can Hadoop/Grid enable it and then add some distributed Graph analysis algos to it. That would make this a really cool platform.

Cheers!

By: tim

tim — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:40:28 +0000

exactly Larry

Would you rather be blissfully ignorant?

I’ii answer for you

Ya sometimes

By: Peter Neubauer

Peter Neubauer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:48:39 +0000

Yes,
Neo4j can be used as a SAIL-compatible Triple Store where it actually builds a graph of the triples and translates SPARQL into real graph traversals as opposed to set operations on triple sets in a relational setup, see http://components.neo4j.org/neo-rdf-sail/

However, we believe the usefulness of graphs in general is a much wider field than the SemWeb community and RDF. Therefore think of a Triple Store rather as a derivative setup of a high performance generic graph engine if you choose to model the information that way.

Disclaimer: I am part of the Neo4j team.

By: Carl Garland

Carl Garland — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:09:38 +0000

I would assume the answer is yes since there was a session on neo4j yesterday at the 2009 ISWC right before Tim Berners Lee talk. I am surprised I have seen no mention of this semantic web conference since there seems to be so much recent traction in this area. When I first dabbled in semantic technologies 7 years ago it seemed to be only academic/research but lately it seems there are actually a lot of vendors and *web 3.0* firms that are receiving funding and building products for use in the next wave.

By: Junaid

Junaid — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:26:05 +0000

Can this be used as a RDF store?

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By: Scott Wheeler

Scott Wheeler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:03:54 +0000

Our (Directed Edge’s) graph database is just in-house and not really designed for general purpose use. There’s no way to do any sort of structured query on the graph, for example. It supports the feature set we need for doing fast recommendations and pretty much nothing more.

Congrats to the neo4j guys on pulling the round together!

By: Parag Parandkar

Parag Parandkar — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:53:01 +0000

Grt, looking forward for it.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:36:48 +0000

“If you write proprietary software, you’re not unlikely to be making money off of it”

Not necessarily. Lots of hobby web apps don’t make any money but still grow to be very big. MySQL allows for this use case but as I understand it, you don’t.

By: TheBlogIsMine

TheBlogIsMine — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:16:00 +0000

Sounds very interesting. And i didn’t think that MySQl is 1billion dollar wost?! Awesome!

By: Emil's Neo Thoughts

Emil's Neo Thoughts — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:57:51 +0000

Let’s go…

So TechCrunch spilled the beans with a nice writeup and the genie is officially out of the bottle: Two weeks ago today, we closed a $2.5M seed stage investment with kickass VC firms Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners. As our friends and family…

By: nik

nik — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:17:11 +0000

there are many, many forms of non-relational and there are many points of comparison. upcoming post will cover it

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:00:56 +0000

Sorry, ignore Directed Edge. It isn’t what I thought it was for a second…

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:46:10 +0000

Is there any current data comparing these graph engines mentioned above and including Direct Edge?

I’ve bee using the standard Modified Preordered and Recursive tree traversal methods for a while now and I had no idea this stuff was out there – so I’m definitely interested!

By: atombul

atombul — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:45:03 +0000

Sounds very interesting.

By: Parag

Parag — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:39:25 +0000

Can someone please compare graph based database with object oriented database, aren’t both non relational database ?

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By: Oren

Oren — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:28:36 +0000

There’s also an experimental graph computation engine for MySQL by OpenQuery called OQGRAPH. Documentation can be found in http://openquery.com/graph/doc.

By: Emil Eifrem

Emil Eifrem — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:01:27 +0000

Hi Larry,

Yea, you’re correct that in some relational systems you can get some benefits by using either datatype extensions (like Oracle Spatial) or non-standardized (or at least seldomly-implemented) SQL syntax (such as Oracle’s CONNECT BY).

The problem with that is typically that many times it’s little more than syntactic sugar. Sure, you get some minor improvements (for example by eliminating a network roundtrip) but at the end of the day you still have to do expensive joins. So the performance gains aren’t in the same ballpark as if you use a true graph database.

Furthermore, features like that only address one side of the table anyway. Even if the performance was acceptable, you’re still stuck with a non-intuitive and cumbersome programming model if you have a graph/network oriented dataset.

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Emil Eifrem
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By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:48:01 +0000

Doesn’t Oracle Spatial already do this? Neo either has some bullocks of steal or no clue who he is competing with. Why oh why didn’t I take the blue pill?