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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

Data backup and restore


Depending on the version you are using, the way to backup and restore your data will be different.

Community version

To back up your data of a community version server, only cold backup (offline) is possible.

A first way, very basic, but not to say DIY, is: first stop your server, then copy the whole $NEO_HOME/data folder to a secure storage. Then restart your server.

To restore backup data, stop your server, replace the $NEO_HOME/data folder with your backup, and restart your server. 

Another way is to use the neo4j-admin utility program, installed with the server in $NEO_HOME/bin:

neo4j-admin dump --to=file --database=optionnalDBName

The to parameter should be a path to a file. The database parameter is optional and only needed if you have more than one database and want to dump a database other than graph.db.

To restore this dump of data, the command is as follows:

neo4j-admin load from=file

Enterprise version

The Enterprise version comes with an enriched version utility...