Re: [Neo4j] from Spreadsheets to Graph vs relational for School Use-Case

2016-04-12 Thread Aran Mulholland
Hi Richard, Your assumption that it is not good data structure for SQL because it is a sparse matrix is flawed. It would all depend on how you stored your data. SQL usually ends up caching a lot of it's data in memory and there might be no reason why you ever need to do a join that would join ever

Re: [Neo4j] from Spreadsheets to Graph vs relational for School Use-Case

2016-04-12 Thread 'Michael Hunger' via Neo4j
Richard, I think you understood the graph data model well enough to get started, I recommend to take the online intro course to get up to speed with the query language. it should be easy to get your data imported into Neo4j with LOAD CSV + MERGE for hosting there are cloud hosting offerings for

[Neo4j] from Spreadsheets to Graph vs relational for School Use-Case

2016-04-12 Thread Richard Conrardy
Hi, I am a mathematics teacher and I'd like to store my data in a more convenient way than Spreadsheets. I'm still not sure what database form to use, graph or relational. While I suppose that these forums are biased, I hope to get some good ideas. I don't have experience in databases or any quer