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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 8. Importing Data into Neo4j

What is a database without data? An empty shell!

There are numerous ways to import data into a Neo4j server. We have already seen the rich GUI approach of typing it in the Neo4j browser using Cypher. Fortunately, as Neo4j is a big data categorized database, there are other ways, such as the following: 

  • Importing CSV data with LOAD CSV
  • Importing from a JSON source
  • Importing from a JDBC source
  • Importing from an XML source

Restoring a backup is also a way but we will leave that for later in the Appendix, Tips and Tricks.

Knowing how to load data will open for you the doors of all the open data that the internet has to offer. It is my opinion that there are combinations of open datasets that would prove to be the base for useful and enriching projects. My students tend to love the dataset of Parisian cafés selling a coffee for one euro, but there are many more! Let's get started.