Hello, I am a PhD student and have been looking for a database to use to store and search interconnected data, mostly qualitative notes. They may have a range of fields depending if they are about a person, place, book, event, etc. Everything will eventually have many-to-many connections.
I've worked with dedicated qualitative data analysis programs and found them convenient for data entry but confining in terms of structure and slow and primitive for searching. The ontology tool, Protege, is very cool but gets bogged down quickly. I've tried to use Microsoft Access. It has fantastic "form" making tools for data entry but linking such a large number of many-to-many connections via association tables is a horrible pain. neo4j looks extremely interesting. Perhaps if I explain some of the tasks I want to do, people would be kind enough to advocate for neo4j or for something else? 1. create people (name, DOB, etc) 2. create documents (title, year, etc) 3. connect people to documents 4. create notes connected to documents and people 5. create tags linked to all the above 6. create relations between notes (supports, challenges, etc) 7. view all documents by specific person 8. view all links to specific person, document, note, etc out x steps 9. search EVERYTHING for regular expression 10. search only people for regular expression 11. add new attributes to nodes as I think of them 12. visualize whole graph or subset 13. have multiple views to the same data, filtered differently 14. control which attribute(s) are used for labels 15. view everything linked to a certain tag 16. view number of connections assigned to each tag 17. view number of people in database 18. bulk add/delete relations between nodes with certain characteristics 19. convert easily to common graph & flat formats 20. backup data easily thank you in advance for your comments -david _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
