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Date Published
Author
Mark Needham
Word count
1169
Language
English
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None

Summary

Neo4j has been busy with releases, including new versions of the Java and .NET drivers, a new release of APOC with many useful features such as date functions, path procedures, and improved periodic iterate functionality. The Neo4j Grails plugin also saw updates, while Microsoft released its Concept Graph library for Neo4j. In other news, Brock Tibert created a Docker image for Neo4j that includes APOC and JDBC drivers, Tomasz Bratanic showed how to connect Neo4j to Elastic using APOC, Markus Harrer demonstrated the use of jQAssistant and Pandas to analyse codebases, and Gabriel de Maeztu introduced neo4jupyter, a tool for visualizing Neo4j queries in Jupyter notebooks. Additionally, Rob Schoening released mercator, a tool for analysing physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure, while Samathy Barratt shared her slides from her talk on graph databases with Neo4j. Meanwhile, Cristina Escalante demonstrated how to use the Microsoft Concept Graph with Neo4j, and Michael Hunger created a collection of useful Cypher tips and queries. Various meetups and events are also scheduled for next week, including talks by Carlos Justiniano, Mike Morley, Dave Bennett, Johannes Unterstein, and others.