<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Hello Craig,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>although I think we’re slightly off topic here, please be aware that neo4j is not a graphical database (eg. it doesn’t aim to be gui-driven), but a *graph* one: this characteristic tells you about the paradigm the db engine uses to organize and indicize data; it’s just another flavour, the others being - for example - relational and document databases.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Operationally wise is quite hassle free, also has an integrated backup tool which does its job; being a java application it consumes a fair amount of ram just to run :-)…it uses lucene under the hood (just as elasticsearch does), so memory wise you should take dataset size into account and plan accordingly. Our dataset is very small so I can’t be very helpful on this matter. Runs nicely in docker and there’s also an official image.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I use it for outside plant documentation, for me does its job definitely better than an excel file, but it’s not so user friendly: the data visualization tool does its job but feels more a PoC than a mature application, and it’s read only…so for data entry you have to manually write queries. I’m looking to integrate it with a proper GIS solution in the future.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>TL;DR: it’s fine if you want to use it as a database for your application, but it’s not a complete application by itself (even if the integrated data visualization tool does its job pretty well). Operationally wise is a piece of cake, also runs nicely in docker.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div>Simone</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Il giorno 11 ott 2019, alle ore 04:14, Craig <<a href="mailto:cvuljanic@gmail.com" class="">cvuljanic@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Has anyone used the graphical data base software:<br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://neo4j.com/" class="">https://neo4j.com/</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I looked at this software several years ago, but it will still relatively new. </div><div class="">We are exploring using this to create dependencies of our network infrastructure hardware, customer information, etc. etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">here is an example:</div><div class=""><a href="https://neo4j.com/graphgist/network-dependency-graph" class="">https://neo4j.com/graphgist/network-dependency-graph</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those that have used it:<br class="">Has anyone been able to successfully use this for their networks? </div><div class="">pros/cons/good/bad</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is maintaining the data a chore? </div><div class="">Has it helped operationally?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if anyone has any input would appreciate hearing from you;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CPV</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>