Very very cool Javier! Is this built using the Neo4j Python bindings or pure REST? Also, is there a public website available to refer to?
Another question - regarding visualisation, what was your experience of the best performing lib for JavaScript out there regarding large amount of nodes and relationships to render, and adaptability for UI? Currently, it seems there is - TheJIT - Processing.js - Graphdracula Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Javier de la Rosa <ver...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > I work in a lab at University of Western Ontario, with humanists > people. The needs of the humanist research make useless the current > SQL databases because it's hard to change the schemas or build queries > with several JOINs. So, we are developing a system which mixes a > relational database and Neo4j. > > Sylva [1], as it's called (previously Graphgamel), stores all data in > the Neo4j database as a graph. On the other hand, de multimedia files > (image, video and audio files) are stores using the relational one > (over Django). Besides, the relational part allows the definition of > lazy and dynamic schemas, very usefull to model the world from the > humanistic point of view. The users can create nodes and relationships > but according to a certain kind of integrity defined in the schema. > > Sylva also has a very early version of visualization through Raphäel > and Processing.js. > Here you can see some screenshots [2, 3, 4] and a video demo [5]. Our > goal is to adapt the django-qbe project [6] to our schema tool in > order to produce Gremlin queries in a visual way. > > But by now we are using the Neo4 REST component but it's not very fast > and it has some limitations. > > It's an alpha version, but it goes without saying :-) > > [1] https://github.com/escalant3/graphgamel > [2] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2630535/sylva.png > [3] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2630535/plexigraph.png > [4] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2630535/grafo.png > [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r04eV7vghfs (sorry, not subtitles > or audio yet) > [6] http://versae.github.com/qbe/ > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:52, Andreas Kollegger > <andreas.kolleg...@neotechnology.com> wrote: >> Would anybody be willing to share experiences with trying to introduce Neo4j >> into a system with another relational (or other NoSQL) database? >> >> We're starting to think about best practices for integration: >> * Hybrid data-modeling: what goes where? >> * XA transactions >> * message queues for data distribution >> * data migration strategies >> >> Any problems or feature-requests related to living in a >> multi-storage-platform world are welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> Andreas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> User@lists.neo4j.org >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > > > > -- > Javier de la Rosa > http://versae.es > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
