Neo4J
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Human Connection is a social network. Using a graph based database which can model nodes and edges natively - a network - feels like an obvious choice. We decided to use , the currently most used graph database available. The community edition of Neo4J is Free and Open Source and we try our best to keep our application compatible with the community edition only.
Run:
You can access Neo4J through for an interactive cypher shell and a visualization of the graph.
Install the community edition of along with the plugin on your system.
To do so, go to , choose "Community Server", download the installation files for you operation system and unpack the files.
Download and drop the .jar
file into the plugins
folder of the just extracted Neo4j-Server.
Then make sure to allow Apoc procedures by adding the following line to your Neo4j configuration (conf/neo4j.conf
):
You can download and run locally for development, spin up a , run Neo4j in one of the , , on Archlinux you can install or on Debian-based systems install . Just be sure to update the Neo4j connection string and credentials accordingly in backend/.env
.
Start Neo4J and confirm the database is running at .