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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

Using Neo4j in a cloud environment


In this section, we are going to address a third and alternative way of getting started with the Neo4j graph database management system--using a cloud solution. As it turns out, you can try out the power of the database solution without even having to go through the previously mentioned steps of installing the product on an operating system of your own. You can just use a graph as a service solution; there are multiple providers out there. At the time of writing this, you can use solutions from the following:

  • GrapheneDB
  • Heroku
  • GraphStory
  • GraphGrid
  • Azure
  • A roll your own solution on CleverCloud, OVH, Google Cloud Platform, OpenShift, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and so on, is possible as well

Note

Consider a hosting provider allowing you to use Docker, so you may roll your own image. More details on Docker installation later in this chapter.

Therefore, we are going to explain and illustrate some of the principles of a cloud-based deployment model and how you can use...