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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

Sandbox


The incredible team at Neo4j managed to offer an even easier opportunity to try Neo4j--the Sandbox. Right off Neo4j's own website, with a few clicks, you will be able to create your own server for free on a public cloud. Of course, there is a major limitation, which is that it will last seven days before it disappears. However, all the work you have done will not be in vain, as it is possible to download the content of your Sandbox. Sounds awesome, right?

Even more awesome is the ability to have a database with some data, even personalized data like your Twitter network (people and tweets).

At this date, other available datasets are as follows:

  • The connections around the Trump administration
  • Bills and votes from the US Congress
  • Movies, in order to generate recommendations

Of course, you may also get a blank Sandbox. You can follow these instructions:

  1. We will now create a Twitter-flavored Sandbox. This needs a Twitter account, which you hopefully already have.
  2. On the home page of Neo4j.org...