Graphs and Neo4j - from Hydropower Plants to PCBs

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Structure - Cases
- Use case context
- Modelling with relational databases (and fails)
- Graph modelling
- Evolving the model
- Epic fails
Final Considerations
- Main benefits
- Support tools
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Have you ever been into the darkness?
Running out of electrical energy
Candle lights <3

Brazil is a huge producer of electrical energy.
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Specially from hydropower plants
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Case 1 - Context
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How do we distribute electrical energy? How are the power plants distributed?
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http://sigel.aneel.gov.br/sigel.html

Accessed in 28/3/2016
http://sigel.aneel.gov.br/sigel.html
Access in 28/3/2016

Map information
- Power plant location
- Transmission lines
- Supply capacity
- Total capacity
- Nearby cities
- Distribution
- Boundaries / States
- Hydrographic basin
- Dealers
Electrical
Political
Environmental
Economy
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Challenge
Build a sytem that stores all these information and how the data is related.
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Case 1 - Modelling with relational databases
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Electrical
Political
Environmental
Economy
CREATE TABLE power_plant;
CREATE TABLE city;
CREATE TABLE hydrographic_basin;
CREATE TABLE dealer;
Question 1:
How do you represent a power plant neighbourhood?

- Self-relationship;
- Denormalisation (neighbours_ids)
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Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
- Given a coordinate data set, sum the population inside the resultant polygon.
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Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
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2. Match power plants coordinates based on supply capacity
Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
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3. Verify properties into transmission_lines table
It is not that difficult

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It is not over!
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Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
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4. Verify if there are industries nearby
Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
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5. Verify HDI
Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
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6. Verify dealers interest.
Question 2:
Which is the best power plant to provide energy for a group of cities?
id | usage (month, in Mwh) | population (milion) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 | 13 | |
2 | 11 | 2 |
city
id | capacity ( Mwh) | transmission_line (PK) | coordinate |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 95 | 22 | |
2 | 11 | 1 |
powe_plant
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7. Verify if the region has alternative energy sources

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Question 3:
Assuming that hydropower plants work as tug-of-war with multiple endpoints, how do you redistribute the electrical charges if one plant shuts down?
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Question 3:
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Assuming that hydropower plants work as tug-of-war with multiple endpoints, how do you redistribute the electrical charges if one plant shuts down?

Maybe tables are not the best structures to represent information about energy distribution.
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Neo4j comes to rescue!

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Quick intro - Neo4j
- Graph oriented database
- ACID
- Structures: Node, Relationship, Index and Label
- Maintained by Neotechnology
- Open Source
- Active community
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Case 1 - Graph Modelling
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Step 1 - Power plants become nodes
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Powered by Arrows - http://www.apcjones.com/arrows/#
CREATE (n:PowerPlant:HydropowerPlant { name : 'Itaipu', capacity : '14000' })
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Usina => Power Plant
Hidreletrica => Hydropower
capacidade => capacity
Step 2 - Cities become nodes
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Step 3 - Transmission lines become relationships!
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Itaipu - Ivaiporã

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MATCH (a:HidropowerPlant),(b:City)
WHERE a.name = 'Itaipu' AND b.name = 'Ivaipora'
CREATE (a)-[r:PROVIDES { cable_capacity : 765, rl : 330 }]->(b)
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Multiple relationships for several lines
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MATCH (a:HidrepowerPlant),(b:City)
WHERE a.name = 'Itaipu' AND b.name = 'Cascavel Oeste'
CREATE (a)-[r:PROVIDES { cable_capacity : 500 }]->(b)
MATCH (a:City),(b:City)
WHERE a.name = 'Ivaipora' AND b.name = 'Cascavel Oeste'
CREATE (a)-[r:MESH { capacidade_cabo : 500 }]->(b)
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Step 4 - Dealers become nodes
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CREATE (n:Dealer { name : 'Fake',
percentage : 85, margin : 72 })
MATCH (a:Dealer),(b:City)
WHERE a.name = 'Ficticio' AND b.name = 'Cascavel Oeste'
CREATE (a)-[r:ATTENDS]->(b)
MATCH (a:Dealer),(b:PowerPlant)
WHERE a.name = 'Ficticio' AND b.name = 'Ita'
CREATE (a)-[r:OWNS]->(b)
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Step 5 - Queries poderosas
MATCH (n:PowerPlant {capacity : 14000}),
(c:City {name : 'Sao Paulo'})
p = shortestPath((n)-[]-(c)) RETURN p
Queries determine optinal paths for energy supply
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Case 1 - Evolving the model
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Important: add Indexes for the most frequently used properties
Capacity, population, coordinates
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Important[2]: Labels
:City, :PowerPlant, :Region
Usually, elements can be grouped deserve a label.
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More evolving - turn other electrical elements into nodes
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CREATE (n:Component:Transformer
{ tag : 'F. Iguacu', type : 'Terciario', mva : 1650, total : 4 })
MATCH (a:Transformer),(b:PowerPlant)
WHERE a.tag = 'F. Iguacu' AND b.name = 'Itaipu'
CREATE (a)-[r:INSTALLED]->(b)
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Neo4j is flexible for modelling.
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Case 1 - Epic Fails

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Too many nodes for cities! (There are too many cities)
Problem
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Too much information being loaded on MATCH; performance problems
Impact
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Remove some :Cities and add :Region label, grouping cities
Solution
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Do not save all the CREATE operations into a file
Problem
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Problems with backup / replication.
Impact
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Do not perform CREATE operations into Web interface!
Add queries into a Git repository - https://github.com/hannelita/qconsp
Solution
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Case 1 - Extra - Insights
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Find hidden information
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Example: mapping the components made a big difference for a deeper model evaluation.
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Mapping components...

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Case 2 - Context

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A-HA! We could use graphs for (...) [complete]
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PCB Routing / Trail design

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Yes! But we can go further.
Let's analyse the board layout and components display.
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Case 2 - Modelling with relational databases
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Component
Trail
Sensor
Layer
CREATE TABLE component;
CREATE TABLE trail;
CREATE TABLE sensor;
CREATE TABLE layer;
Question 1:
A sensor detects temperature raise. How would you infer if it is a problem from a component or from the trail?
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Question 1
Usually you need extra information from the neighbours sensor. How do you model that?

- Self-relationship;
- Denormalise (sensors_ids)
Déjà vu!
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Question 2:
Which trails does affect more components at the same time? (ex: If Trail A breaks, the entire system stops working)
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Question 3:
Is it possible to extract some hidden or unseen information from the circuit by modelling it within a graph?
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Case 2 - Graph modelling
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Step 1: Components become nodes
CREATE (n:Component:Primary { name : 'R1',
type : 'resistor', value : '10K' })
CREATE (n:Component:Primary { name : 'C1',
type : 'capacitor', group : 'polyester',
value : '100p' })
CREATE (n:Component:CI { name : 'CI1',
type : 'LM741', seller : 'Texas' })
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Step 2: Map trails into relationships
MATCH (a:Primary),(c:CI)
WHERE a.name = 'R1' AND c.name = 'CI1'
CREATE (a)-[r:TRAILS { thickness : 2, dilation : 0.5 }]->(c)
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Step 3: Map Layers into Labels
CREATE (n:Component:Primary:LAYER1
{ name : 'R1', type : 'resistor', value : '10K' })
CREATE (n:Component:Primary:LAYER2
{ name : 'C1', type : 'capacitor',
group : 'polyester', value : '100p' })
CREATE (n:Component:CI:LAYER1 { name : 'CI1',
type : 'LM741', seller : 'Texas' })
Easy to fetch all the components from a specific Layer
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Case 2 - Evolving the model
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Step 4: Map sensors into nodes
CREATE (n:Sensor:LAYER1
{ name : 'SS1', type : 'light'})
CREATE (n:Sensor:LAYER2
{ name : 'SS2', type : 'temperature' })
MATCH (aPrimary),(s:Sensor)
WHERE a.name = 'R1' AND c.name = 'SS1'
CREATE (s)-[MONITORS { light : 2 }]->(a)
MATCH (a:Primary),(s:Sensor)
WHERE a.name = 'R1' AND c.name = 'SS2'
CREATE (s)-[r:MONITORS { temperature : 37 }]->(a)
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MATCH (n:Sensor)-[MONITORS]-(c:Component)
WHERE n.temperature > 60
RETURN c.name, r.dilation
Decide if it is the component of if it is the trail that is damaged.
Step 5: Run the following periodic query:
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Case 2 - Epic Fails

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Too many updates for the sensors; Neo4j has some writing restrictions
Problem
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Bad performance and high RAM consumption
Impact
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Remove some sensors node or jump to Enterprise version.
Solution
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Final considerations
- Flexible models
- Find hidden relations
- Easy to get started
- Active tool and active community
- It can be useful in several scenarios, beyond social networks and recommendation systems.
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Tools
- Data Import (Relational Databases, MongoDB, Cassandra, JSON, CSV)
- Visualization tools
- REST API
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References
- Neo4j Meetup in São Paulo
- Neo4j Slack Users
- Neo4j Training (Free)
- Arrows (Sketching tool)
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Special thanks
- Neo Technology, @lyonwj, @ryguyrg e @mesirii
- B.C., for the excellent feedback and review
- @Codeminer42

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- Prof. Maurílio and Prof. Justino.
Thank you :)
Questions?
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Graphs and Neo4j - From Hydropower plants to PCBs
By Hanneli Tavante (hannelita)
Graphs and Neo4j - From Hydropower plants to PCBs
Graphs and Neo4j - From Hydropower plants to PCBs - English version - QCON 2016
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