Is this project dead?

[LLTommy]

Hey,

I read about mazerunner and I was very interested to use this for my neo4j database, I think that his could have potential. However, now after installing it and running into some problems and investigation the github issues I get the impression, that this project is dead - no support, no updates, no contributions from kbastani and other people since December. So I just not sure if I should invest more time into this or just skip it - which is a shame because I think it would be cool to use. So the questions:

1 Is this project dead?
2 Is there support for newer neo4j versions on the way? I won't downgrade my production databases just to make mazerunner work. (see below)
3 Are there any alternatives that accomplish somewhat the same things?

My current problem with mazerunner is that linking my folder with docker does not seem to work. Basically the option that I use for this step (from documentation):
docker run -d -P -v /Users/<user>/<neo4j-path>/data:/opt/data --name graphdb --link mazerunner:mazerunner --link hdfs:hdfs kbastani/docker-neo4j:2.2.1
seems to be ignored, the neo on the docker always links to /opt/data/graph.db - no matter what I enter as path - I just worked around this by copying my graph db into docker into this very folder (/opt/data) ... That was successful, the folder is now 600 MB big, however, nothing is shown if I try to access is in neo. IF I call one of the mazerunner endpoints, I only get a json reply saying "result: success" which .... sounds nice but doesn't do anything for me. Can't see any data, not at the endpoint and not in cypher, :(

I guess (does anybody know?) the problems come from the fact that my graphdb folder comes from another neo version (2.3.3) and the neo packed into mazerunner is 2.2.1 - and that is why nothing is shown when I try to cypher into the data.....

So well, that is what's on my mind. As mentioned, I fear that this project is dead, which would be a shame, so please convince me that it is not if that's the case! I would love to make this work with my data, could be awesome!

Bye guys!

[rzo1]

Any updates here @kbastani ??

[jexp]

Hey, sorry for that @rzo1 and @LLTommy. We just haven't found the time for all the required updates / testing, due to the slightly involved setup (esp. with testing with Hadoop Docker containers).

For running graph algorithms directly on Neo4j you should also check out the https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-graph-algorithms project and for transferring data between Neo4j and Spark the https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-spark-connector.

The problem that you described is I think with using the image that wraps the docker-compose setup.
I had the same, but it worked for me by using docker-compose directly with the docker-compose.yml file.

What is it exactly that you try to achieve?

[rzo1]

@jexp Thanks for your response and your hints towards other projects (after some search, I found them after posting here too) aiming at graph analytics! I posted here, as I am looking for large-scale graph analytic possibilities with neo4j ;) - at least, I now know, that this project is not maintained activley, which is ok as this is community work ;)