Graph Databases with Ryan Boyd of Neo4j

Graph databases use graph structures for semantic queries.

Ryan Boyd is a developer advocate for Neo4j, an open-source graph database.

Questions

• Why does Monsanto use graph databases?
• In a social network graph, how would you query for “people you may know”?
• What CAP tradeoffs does Neo4j make?
• Why isn’t BASE good enough?

Links

• Hadoop and Graph Databases for Bioinformatics
• Neo4j availability discussion (explores ZooKeeper option)
• Neo4j High Scalability Post

Jeff