Tutorial: Graph DB - Neo4j

monday, - all day
Track: Cloud & nosql

This workshop will show you how to build a high-performance backend for a social network based on the open source Neo4j graph database. A graph database uses nodes, relationships between nodes and key-value properties instead of tables to represent information. This data model is ideal for storing social network data and can frequently outperform a relational database by a factor of 1000x or more.

We will over the course of this workshop give you a real-world introduction to how you can write an application on top of Neo4j. We will investigate the implementation of a small but working social network backend, with simple but powerful APIs to find paths between people, identify friends in different levels and to analyze the social graph for suggested new friends. This will be done using simple code examples and the full implementation will be available as open source after the workshop.