Introduction to Neo4j and Graph Databases

This presentation introduces participants to what a graph database is and how Neo4j is used in many enterprises to implement key use cases. Participants will learn about the differences between a relational data model and a graph property model. Then, participants will learn about the components of the Neo4j Graph Platform and how to use Cypher to retrieve data from Neo4j.

Lab Prerequisites: N/A, but there will be an in-session demo in the second half of this session; users can follow along on their own machines. (Instructions for this will be provided.)

[aryashahdi]

Fantastic presenter. Amazed how he addressed the questions so precisely.

[ProjectDataScience]

Great presentation, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. I've been diving into Neo4j recently, and I loved how this talk not only covered the introductory topics really well but also went into common pitfalls, anti-patterns, and where to look for advanced material (like the graph algorithms). It's clear this guy knows his stuff!

[nerdophile]

Great Initiative by Microsoft. It was a good interactive session, one guy asked a question which I totally had in my mind. Concise and straight to the point. Really looking forward to Neo4j.

[anthonykrinsky]

Extremely clear and well reasoned presentation, a master class.

[TonyHenrique]

This database is awesome and this Cypher Query Language is very intuitive and easy to use.

[GaryWee]

Thanks for providing such an amazing presentation! It is clear and easy to follow!

[sureshgatti]

Very nice presentation. It would have been better if the camera focused more on the slides. Several times, wanted to look at the board to follow what he was saying.

[LITA]

Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do :) Thank you for the Brilliant video and product!!!

[ericpmoss]

Please focus the camera on the screen -- it takes time to digest what's written, and we need to hear him speak at the same time.

[SaifUlIslam-dixv]

Thank you for the upload, Microsoft. Very cool. Much thank. Great job.

[stevecoffman]

Show the slides >80% of the time. The slides are more important than the visual of the speaker.

[hungiscoding]

I was the person that worked really hard at 50:08 :D Oh dear little did I know :D

[filippograzioli]

Great talk! Gives a very good overview of Neo4j

[spiritunchecked]

Awesome presentation, very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[calebpro]

He is awesome to explain Neo4J and its internal !! Great !

[prosongo]

I love the presentation, and I'm interested in using Neo4j. What turns me off a bit (as a researcher) is the Cypher language. It seems to be overcomplicated SQL (but it might be just my "noobish" impression). I want to write simple queries like in 23m:39s : "Who loves Ann?" ;) and db engine figures out > "Ann" probably {Person}, "loves" probably {label} etc... Does such a parser exist?

[subratamondal]

Content is excellent...but dont no why the camera is mostly focused in the tutor instead of the slides...it was a bit difficult to go through for this reason.

[chenjus]

Great talk. Does anyone know the best way to insert a Networkx graph into Neo4j?

[TheMahimas]

Great Video. I have a question - Say I have 15 different legacy RDMS database instances where the data related to each other reside and these have millions of records.If I implement Neo4J here, my intention is to traverse the graph efficiently and being able to pull the relationships. I don't want to create a monolith and huge Neo4J database that consists of data from 15 of the legacy databases . I rather want to leverage existing data stores but just want to create a graph that I can traverse for ascertaining the relationships.Please let me know if you can answer this.

[RamaraoKanneganti]

When he is refering to content of the slide and not being able to see the slide is frustrating. Other than that, the presentation is great.