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Learning Neo4j Graphs and Cypher [Video]

By : Chris Fauerbach
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Learning Neo4j Graphs and Cypher [Video]

By: Chris Fauerbach

Overview of this book

<p>Learning Neo4j provides you with a step-by-step approach to adopting Neo4j, the world's leading graph database. This video includes a lot of background information, helps you grasp the fundamental concepts behind this radical new way of dealing with connected data, and will give you lots of examples of use cases and environments where a graph database would be a great fit, starting with a brief introduction to graph theory.</p> <p>This video will show you the advantages of using graph databases. Following on from that, you will be introduced to Neo4j and you will be shown how to install Neo4j on various operating systems. You will then be shown how you can model and import your data into Neo4j. The video also includes a thorough introduction to the Cypher Query Language and how it can be used to query Neo4j. You will also gain an insight into graph visualization options for Neo4j and discover external sources where you can learn more about Neo4j. By the end of this comprehensive video, you will have a thorough understanding of the fundamentals as well as the more advanced functionalities offered by Neo4j, and can use them to build your own solutions.</p> <h1>Style and Approach</h1> <p>A user-friendly course packed with step-by-step instructions, and working examples. This practical course is divided into clear bite-size chunks so you can learn at your own pace with different kinds of data and Neo4js.</p>
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 4
Create
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Section 2
Relationships
Now that we’ve created nodes within Neo4j, we can start to relate to them to other nodes. - Create nodes and relationships, using the CREATE statement - Use the MATCH statement to relate existing nodes - Optimize to create if a node doesn’t exist, or match and find an existing node if it’s already there with the MERGE statement