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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

The openCypher project


Since October 2015, the openCypher project has aimed to provide an open grammar, language specification, technical compatibility kit and reference implementation of parser, planner, and runtime for Cypher.

This is how the Neo4j website presents openCypher. Not only is this query language awesome, but this initiative of freeing it means that knowing Cypher does not limit you to only one vendor, be it the best graph database of the market or otherwise. This is intrinsically good for you. Currently, the other vendors involved in the openCypher project are Oracle, Apache Spark, Tableau, and Structr, but there are, of course, open source projects coming from the community. These projects may not offer the full language and may make use of other databases to persist data, such as PostgreSQL or Redis.

The openCypher website is http://www.opencypher.org.