Chapter 7Neo4J
A bungee cord may not seem a standard carpentry tool, just like Neo4j may not seem like a standard database. Bungee cord is used to tie things together—no matter how awkwardly shaped the objects may be. If your ability to tie a table to a column to a pickup truck in the most organic way is of the utmost importance, this is your go-to tool.
Neo4j is a new type of NoSQL datastore called a graph database. As the name implies, it stores data as a graph (in the mathematical sense). It’s known for being “whiteboard friendly,” meaning if you can draw a design as boxes and lines on a whiteboard, you can store it in Neo4j. Neo4j focuses more on the relationships between values than on the commonalities among sets of values (such as ...
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