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Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition

By : Jerome Baton
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Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition

By: Jerome Baton

Overview of this book

Neo4j is a graph database that allows traversing huge amounts of data with ease. This book aims at quickly getting you started with the popular graph database Neo4j. Starting with a brief introduction to graph theory, this book will show you the advantages of using graph databases along with data modeling techniques for graph databases. You'll gain practical hands-on experience with commonly used and lesser known features for updating graph store with Neo4j's Cypher query language. Furthermore, you'll also learn to create awesome procedures using APOC and extend Neo4j's functionality, enabling integration, algorithmic analysis, and other advanced spatial operation capabilities on data. Through the course of the book you will come across implementation examples on the latest updates in Neo4j, such as in-graph indexes, scaling, performance improvements, visualization, data refactoring techniques, security enhancements, and much more. By the end of the book, you'll have gained the skills to design and implement modern spatial applications, from graphing data to unraveling business capabilities with the help of real-world use cases.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter specific for the Enterprise version of Neo4j, we have seen the use and importance of roles, how to give them to users, how to create roles, and how to restrict procedures calls to specific roles--which is perfect for restricting the view on the graph of users, provided they cannot access the web application we called Neo4j browser throughout this book (configure this in neo4j.conf ).

We have seen how to run a containerized OpenLDAP server with a chosen dataset and connect this directory to a Neo4j server so that authentication becomes delegated to the OpenLDAP server. This way, the Neo4j admin does not have to recreate users in Neo4j and users do not have another password to remember.

In Chapter 11Visualization for Neo4j, we will see a completely different domain and see how to do some visualization of our data.