Cypher shell with logging by Alex Frieden.
From the post:
For those who don’t know, Neo4j is a graph database built with Java. The internet is abound with examples, so I won’t bore you with any.
Our problem was a data access problem. We built a loader, loaded our data into neo4j, and then queried it. However we ran into a little problem: Neo4j at the time of release logs in the home directory (at least on linux redhat) what query was ran (its there as a hidden file). However, it doesn’t log what time it was run at. One other problem as an administrator point of view is not having a complete log of all queries and data access. So we built a cypher shell that would do the logging the way we needed to log. Future iterations of this shell will have REST cypher queries and not use the embedded mode (which is faster but requires a local connection to the data). We also wanted a way in the future to output results to a file.
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Excellent!
Logs are a form of documentation. You may remember that documentation was #1 in the Solr Usability contest.
Documentation is important! Don’t neglect it.