Neo4j 2.0 GA – Graphs for Everyone by Andreas Kollegger.
From the post:
A dozen years ago, we created a graph database because we needed it. We focused on performance, reliability and scalability, cementing a foundation for graph databases with the 0.x series, then expanding the features with the 1.x series. Today, we announce the first of the 2.x series of Neo4j and a commitment to take graph databases further to the mainstream.
Neo4j 2.0 has been brewing since early 2013, with almost a year of intense engineering effort producing the most significant change to graph databases since the term was invented. What makes this version of Neo4j so special? Two things: the power of a purpose-built graph query language, and a tool designed to let that language flow from your fingertips. Neo4j 2.0 is the graph database we dreamed about over a dozen years ago. And it’s available today!
Download Neo4j 2.0.
I’m not overly impressed with normalization.
After all, normalization is actually an abnormal condition. That is one you rarely encounter outside a relational database.
That being the case, why do we shoe horn non-normalized data into normalized form?
Granting that yes, with older technology, normalization made things possible that weren’t otherwise possible.
My question is why, several decades later, are we still shoe horning data into normalized forms?
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