<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am also in the process of consideration, but there are people out there who did a lot more more. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/corestate55/netomox" class="">https://github.com/corestate55/netomox</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some ideas could be borrowed. And the use of RFC8345 is very interesting because it is hopefully an evolving standard. If only someone could do something similar with Openconfig models. </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With that being said there are all kinds of other database alternatives. I can think of several other graph databases and I even heard of people using MongoDB as graph database.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are also tools like Gephi that are more in line as graphical tools as opposed to graph databases. So it is a matter of finding the right frontend and with the right graph database backend. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There was some experimentation with Cytoscape and and the idea was not necessarily to keep inventory, but be able to simulate dependencies and do analysis like indirect impacts. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It does not directly answer the question, but hopefully gives some ideas. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yan</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 11, 2019, at 5:05 AM, Simone Ricci <<a href="mailto:simone@apuacom.it" class="">simone@apuacom.it</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello Craig,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Simone</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><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 class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>