January 2020 Summaries

This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide for installing Memgraph and Memgraph Lab on a Windows 10 PC using the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Memgraph, an in-memory graph database, supports ACID transactions and the Cypher query language, while Memgraph Lab serves as an integrated development environment for database queries and visualization. The installation process involves enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux, installing Debian, and setting up Memgraph through a series of command-line instructions. Users are guided through testing the installations by executing basic Cypher queries using both the mgconsole CLI tool and Memgraph Lab, which offers a more visual approach to database management. The tutorial emphasizes the benefits of Memgraph Lab's interface, making it suitable for both beginners and advanced users, and concludes by encouraging further exploration of Memgraph's capabilities through additional tutorials and community support.

Memgraph has released official drivers for Python and C languages, along with a command line interface (CLI), to facilitate interactions with its database system, and these resources are available on GitHub. The article provides a tutorial on how to install the C driver, mgclient, which is essential for both the Python driver, pymgclient, and the CLI, mgconsole. It details the installation process of the Python driver via PyPI using PIP and the CLI from source, with comprehensive instructions available in their respective GitHub README files. The tutorial also demonstrates how to execute basic queries using pymgclient, which is compliant with the DB-API 2.0 specification, and mgconsole, which supports interactive Cypher queries. Users are encouraged to explore further, consult GitHub repositories for more information, and engage with the community via Discord for support and feedback on these early-version tools.