Learn the Cypher query language in 10 days

memgraph.com

13 points·taubek··8 comments

When you are taking a new course/learning a new thing what keeps you motivated to continue learning new things? Is it pure curiosity or the fact that you need to learn something to get the job done?

In e-mail based courses I like the fact that I get new content that I should learn until next e-mail. This reminds me od deadlines in Coursera based courses and this creates some kind of obligation in my mind that I try to fulfil.

Only curiosity... My biggest flaw - I don't like learning things I MIGHT need one day... I like to learn things I need NOW

Like Trinity in the Matrix

It feels like a good teaser and eye opener into a certain field to me.

Does anyone here know if there is any fundamental difference between memgraph and neo4j? It looks to me like there is roughly feature parity between them, but I am not very familiar with graph databases. As I understand the Cypher language is used by both.

Because Memgraph uses an in-memory storage engine and is implemented in C++ it's faster than Neo4j and more suited for analyzing real-time data, for example from a Kafka data stream. It also provides more support for implementing custom procedures in Python, Rust and C/C++ compared to Neo4j which is only doing Java.

Interesting concept, I really like email courses, so I will give it a try. :)

It would be cool to have this kind of email course like some intro to the graph world. Maybe graph modelling or graph algorithms :)

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