February 2011 Blog Posts

Announcing Neo4j on Windows Azure

Neo4j has a ‘j’ appended to the name. And now it is available on Windows Azure? This proves that in the most unlikely of circumstances sometimes beautiful things can emerge. Microsoft has promised Java to be a valued “first class citizen” on Windows Azure. In this blog post we will show that it is no problem at all to host a sophisticated and complex server product such as the Neo4j graph database server on Window Azure. Since Neo4j has a REST API over HTTP you can speak to this server from your regular .NET (or Java) applications, inside or outside...