Graphs for Bunnies

Over the past couple of months, I have been doing lots of “Intro to Graphs” talks across Europe. What started out as an idea in our London User Group, has now been a standard monthly introduction that has been extremely well attended. And that’s not where it stops – many other people want to start doing these sessions as well in different cities. During these talks, lots of people have been asking really smart and important questions – and that’s why I have created a small screencast to share the answers to these questions. Here is the screencast:



And here are some links that could be useful info to go with each of the questions:

1. What are Graph Databases?
   • See the Learn-Section of Neo4j.org for an even better explantation
   • Look at my beer posts to see how even non-technical folks can get started with Graphs
2. How do Graph Databases work?
   • Look at the Cypher Intro-Tutorial for more info around traversals
3. What are Graph Databases good for?
   • Read some of these great use cases.
4. What are Graph Databases bad for?
5. How do Graph Databases perform?
   • The neo4j manual has some good tips and tricks
6. How do Graph Databases scale?
   • Take a look at this excellent whitepaper.
   • Look at Jim Webber’s cache sharding page.
7. How do I model my Graph Database?
   • Look at some of these examples
   • Look at Alistair’s Skillsmatter talk.
8. How do I ensure data integrity in my Graph Database?
9. How to fit a Graph Database into my enterprise architecture?
   • Look at how this GraphConnect Panel does it.
10. How do I fit a Graph Database in with other DB tech?
    • Look at how it stacks up in a NOSQL world.

In general, please use neo4j.com as your starting point. We also run a number of cool meetup groups in Europe and beyond:

I hope this is useful for all of you. If you want to take a look at the slides, then please contact me! Happy to deliver or help deliver this talk in your city or at your company if that would be of interest.

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