Explore everything that's happening in the Neo4j community for the week of 19 May 2018 including the release of Neo4j 3.4 and Neo4j is now available on Google Cloud Launcher. We also have the GQL proposal, a deep dive into the new DateTime data type, and more.
5. Neo4j 3.4 Released
Watch a short video of the release highlights
Following on from the announcement at GraphTour San
Francisco a couple of weeks ago, Neo4j 3.4 was released on
Thursday. We’ve also released new versions of the Graph
Algorithms, APOC, and GraphQL plugins. This version of
Neo4j has the eagerly
awaited geospatial and
temporal data types.
6. Neo4j available on Google Cloud Launcher
Read the blog post
As of this week Neo4j is available on Google Cloud
Launcher, and Christopher Crosbie from the Google Cloud
Partner Engineering Team has written an article in which
he shows how Neo4j can be used to better understand
NCAA Mascots or analyze your GCP security
posture with Stackdriver logs.
7. It’s Time for a Single Property Graph Query Language
Vote for the GQL Proposal
Earlier this week we published the GQL Manifesto, which
proposes fusing the best of Cypher, PGQL and G-CORE into
a more comprehensive query language built specifically for
graph solutions. If you’re in favour
of the manifesto don’t forget to vote.
8. Deep Dive: Temporal Data Type
Deep Dive with Dates
Adam Cowley has written a great blog post in which he
does a deep dive into the new temporal data type released
in Neo4j 3.4. Adam explains the different Clocks, Dates,
and Times now available and concludes
with a worked example.
9. Visualizing Open Data using Neo4j
Read the slides
Scott Sosna shared the slides from his DevoxxUK 2018 talk.
Scott shows how to explore various Open Data sources
using Neo4J and see what you can
discover.
10. If you liked this check
out the blog post
This Week in Neo4j - 19th May 2018