Installing and configuring Neomodel

In this section, we will talk about installing and configuring Neomodel on a virtual environment provided by Python.

Py2neo provides the lower-level APIs for interacting with Neo4j, which sometimes becomes difficult as a lot of boilerplate code needs to be written for performing CRUD or search operation over Neo4j database. Though it provides APIs for dealing with all the features of Neo4j version 1.9 or earlier, fundamentally it doesn't provide object relational mapping between the entities or nodes. In contrast, Neomodel exploits the same py2neo APIs and adds some more code to support the features of Neo4j 2.0 and above, such as labels, constraints, and so on, and provides object relational mapping for Neo4j entities or nodes. We will discuss this in detail in the upcoming sections but let's first look at the basic steps of installing Neomodel.

Neomodel is available in PyPI (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/neomodel), so it can be installed using...