Introduction to Graph Databases w/ Tim Ojo

Hey everyone. We're most excited to have Tim coming to us with a talk on graph databases. 

Tim is a developer at AudiencePoint where he works on everything from backend services, C# being the language of choice, to devops, to web apps. 

In many of the information models we have today, relationships between entities are super important. 

"What items were purchased by at least 3 or more of my friends?" 

"Which flights went from JFK to SFO through DFW on Jan 8th?" 

Turns out relational databases are not very efficient in answering these kinds of questions. Enter Graph databases. 

Graph databases store connections as first class citizens so they can answer complex queries on highly connected data more efficiently than a relational database can. 

In this talk, I'll introduce Graph databases (Neo4j in particular), talk about what makes them different from an RDBMS or Key-Value store and learn how to get started with the Cypher query language.