Chapter 7. Administering Neo4j

In the course of time that Neo4j has been around, it has become a widely accepted tool for storage and processing of large scale, highly interconnected data. From major corporations such as eBay and Walmart, to research students, the utilities of Neo4j have spread across the world. What makes Neo4j a great tool, is the fact that it is open source, and community contributions are useful and valuable. Today, Neo4j can be interfaced with several frameworks and a plethora of tools have been developed to make operations like data loading, traversals, and testing, simpler and more effective. It is not always about having an effective place for your application; it is also about maintaining and administering it to obtain optimum performance from the application. In this chapter, we will first look at how to use the Neo4j adapters for some of the most popular languages and frameworks that are used today. In the latter part of the chapter, we will see how...