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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

The features


Neo4j offers different feature sets for different editions of the graph database management system:

  • Community Edition: This is the basic, fully functional, high-performance graph database.
  • Enterprise Edition: This adds a number of typical Enterprise features tothe Community Edition: clustering (for high availability and load balancing), advanced monitoring, advanced caching, online backups, and more. Neo Technology has a number of additional features lined up on the Enterprise Edition road map.

Most users of Neo4j start off with the Community Edition, but then deploy into production on the Enterprise Edition.

Note

Since Enterprise Version 3.2, it is possible to deploy Neo4j as a cluster between different data centers, possibly on different continents, and still ensure that the transactions are ACID.

The support

Different support channels exist for Neo4j's different editions:

  • The Community Edition offers community support. This means that you are welcome to ask questions and seek support...