Introducting a Neo4J Bolt protocol driver for Elixir

[mschae]

Dear Elixorians,

As we are about to move more of our backend onto Neo4J I discovered that they now feature their own binary protocol called Bolt.

I wanted to get into binary pattern matching anyway so I used this as a learning project. However this is intended to become a serious package. Therefore any ideas/feedback/criticism is much appreciated.

You can check out the docs here:
https://hexdocs.pm/boltex

Find a very rough first (functioning!) prototype here:

mschae/boltex

This is my first stab at writing any kind of low lever driver, so please be nice.

Thanks,
Michael

[tpunt]

So what is the status of this project? I’m starting up a new project today and am looking to use Neo4j again, but this time with its Bolt binary protocol. There appears to be one other driver that satisfies this (bolt_sips), but neither driver appears to be stable or complete yet.

[Deithrian]

Neo4j is awesome now gaiz https://neo4j.com/blog/neo4j-3-1-ga-release/

[LawJolla]

I’ve had great luck with https://github.com/florinpatrascu/bolt_sips

Just updated for connection to remote Das like GrapheneDB.

[Deithrian]

:etls doesn’t compile under windows, fair warning.
Personally fixed it with Hyper-V and fullscreen Ubuntu install, works like a charm ^^

[Florin]

bolt_sips is stable, what features are you looking for, in order to determine if the driver is complete?

[krapans]

Just returned from London’s BETT conference and one guy was telling me about this Graph DB and first what I tough, is there an adapter in elixir for that Thanks @mschae for sharing this. Bookmarked!

[Florin]

update: I changed bolt_sips to use the standard :ssl package by default, therefore it should compile under Windows too. Using ETLS, is optional now, please see the updated docs. HTH