Neo4j GraphTalks Darko Križić PRODYNA ADAMA

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PRODYNA
IMPLEMENTATION
AND LIVE DEMO

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MAY I INTRODUCE MYSELF
ABOUT ME
§ Darko Križić
§ Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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§ “Background story”
§ Crop Science
§ Bought 50 local companies worldwide
§ Problem
§ All data into one application
§ Overview
§ Business Intelligence
MIGRATION FROM “MAKTESHIM-AGAN” TO “ADAMA”
ABOUT THE CUSTOMER

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§ ADAMA sells crop protection products
§ Those products are sold under different
names in different countries
§ Each product offers treatments for a
combination of diseases on plants
THE ORIGINAL STATE

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THE REQUIREMENTS
§ You want to have a single
database that contains
§ All products
§ All registrations
§ This application is called the
Knowledge base
§ Data about 56 countries
§ Multilingual in about 27 languages
§ ADAMA wants to do Business
Intelligence (BI)
§ For example: Compare products in countries

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§ The Neo4j query language Cypher is very
powerful
§ But not suitable for end users
§ The database contains about 6 million
nodes and relationships
§ All translations
THE PROBLEM

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§ The levels can be configured by the user dynamically
Graph Data View Tree View
THE SOLUTION

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FIND PRODUCT IN GERMANY FOR BROWN RUST ON WHEAT
USE CASE 1

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IN WHICH COUNTRIES ARE PRODUCTS OFFERED FOR BROWN RUST ON WHEAT?
USE CASE 2

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COMPARING PRODUCTS BY PLANT GROWTH STAGE
USE CASE 3

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§ Looks like Neo4j but end user compatible
§ User can navigate by double-click
Dynamic graph Dynamic graph
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION

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ARCHITECTURE
USED TECHNOLOGIES
Liferay
Knowledge Hub
ADFS
Amazon
S3
Search Crop Target
Country
Selector
Navigation Product Formulation
Active
Ingredient
Authorization
Crop Target Product Tank Mix Authorization Navigation Translation Region Formulation
§ Liferay Portal Server
§ Spring MVC and Spring Data Neo4j
Knowledge Hub Portlets
Service Layer
Authentication
Media files

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SCREENSHOTS
KNOWLEDGE HUB
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SCREENSHOTS
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SCREENSHOTS
KNOWLEDGE HUB
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5000 (potential)
200 (concurrent)
Users
FACTS AND FIGURES
SUMMARY
30
Countries
Worldwide
Scope
27
Languages
6 Millions
Relationships
600.000
Nodes

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PREJUDICES AND DEVELOPMENT
SUMMARY
§ “Neo4j only makes sense for special use cases like social networks”
§ “Is Neo4j really enterprise ready?”
§ “Neo4j only has nodes and relationships, is this really sufficient for a complex business application?”
§ “Users always work with graphs?”
§ “Is this database fast enough?”

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SIX ARGUMENTS FOR NEO4J
SUMMARY
§ Much easier mapping of Business Domain Model to the graph database
§ Business understands the graph model
§ Hierarchical structures easy to query
§ Less queries, less development, faster and cheaper results
§ Full scalability (embedded to cluster)
§ Automated testing, supporting libraries
§ Integrated Lucene full text search engine
§ Full text search as part of the Cypher query
§ Plugin architecture
§ Amazing performant results
§ Integrateable
§ Everybody speaks REST

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