Neo4j highlights
Some of the highlights of Neo4j 3.2, as presented by Neo4j chief scientist Jim Webber.
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Neo4j 3.2
Neo4j 3.2 highlights: Scale, Governance, and Performance.
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Neo4j Native Stack
Neo4j boasts a native graph stack, and its entire approach is based on owning and optimizing this stack.
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Neo4j benchmarking
Benchmarking is typically controversial, but Neo4j claims its native graph stack gives it an unfair advantage when it comes to comparing performance with other graph solutions.
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Causal consistency
Neo4j started out as fully ACID and eventually loosened up to support what it calls causal consistency in a cluster environment. This essentially means reading one's own writes in sequence.
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Cypher query language
Neo4j has introduced its own query language, Cypher, which it claims is "by far the leading graph query language, and growing with the openCypher consortium."
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