Schedule FrOSCon 2014

Lecture: Playing with Neo4j ­-[:USING]­-> PHP

August 23, 2014
HS6 (PHP)
Language: en
PHP Devroom

Summary

Relations, relations everywhere. They can be difficult and maybe slow to represent in SQL. So why not to use a graph? Neo4j is a highly scalable and robust graph database, which fits your complex relation needs. In this talk, I will give an introduction into the graph concept, Neo4j, the Cypher Query Language and an integration in PHP. There are already some good PHP libraries for graph processing. I'll also show some examples and benchmarks using my favourite lib that is based on the Doctrine Common API.

Frank Neff has turned his hobby into his profession. As an accomplished web developer, back-ends...