Preface
Among the NoSQL databases, Neo4j is generating a lot of interest due to the following set of features: performance and scalability, robustness, its very natural and expressive graph model, and ACID transactions with rollbacks.
Neo4j is a graph database. Its model is simple and based on nodes and relationships. The model is described as follows:
- Each node can have a number of relationships with other nodes
- Each relationship goes from one node either to another node or the same node; therefore, it has a direction and involves either only two nodes or only one
- Both nodes and relationships can have properties, and each property has a name and a value
Before Neo4j introduced Cypher as a preferred query, utilizing Neo4j in a real-world project was ...
Get Learning Cypher now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
