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Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition

By : Jerome Baton
Book Image

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

Chapter 10. Security

In this chapter, you will learn what the security features of Neo4j are and how they apply, such as with their roles and access restrictions. If security is the number one priority to your admins it is because some data can be so sensitive that it has to be restricted to chosen groups of users. You would not want some unknown jerk to delete your data from somewhere on the internet, would you?

When users can be counted in hundreds, you need a directory (or to have more admins to create accounts; do not do that it is silly).

We will be covering the following topics in the chapter:

  • Authentication and authorization
  • Roles
  • Users management
  • Linking Neo4j to an LDAP directory
  • Configuring Neo4j to use LDAP