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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

Linking Neo4j to an LDAP directory


I will start this paragraph with a piece of advice. If you are using a cluster, connecting each node to the same LDAP directory is the way to go as users are local to a node and are not propagated.

So, let's connect. We will use a Docker container based on an OpenLdap image.

Starting the directory 

Let's prepare the folder where the configuration will be. In a shell, execute the following in your home folder:

mkdir data/ldap/environment -p
mkdir data/ldap/db -p

In this first new folder, create a file named users.ldif with the following content:

dn: dc=learningneo4j,dc=com
dc: learningneo4j
description: Directory of all the readers
objectClass: top
objectClass: dcObject
objectClass: organization
o: Readers Directory

dn: ou=users,dc=learningneo4j,dc=com
ou: users
objectClass: organizationalRole
cn: users

# =============================================================== ROLES
dn: ou=ldapreaders,dc=learningneo4j,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalRole...