Learning Neo4j Graphs and Cypher

Learning Neo4j Graphs and Cypher

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.

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.

About the Author :

Chris Fauerbach is an avid learner and has been teaching technology in the classroom and business setting since early college. Chris has been dreaming of a Neo4J project for years. After spending countless hours learning the technology, the problem finally arose. While developing a cyber security program, the graph relationship turned out to be the right answer. Relational databases would be too complicated with dynamic relationships just wouldn't work.

He has been developing software integration projects for over 20 years. He has a passion for data enrichment, cyber security and full-text search and is a huge proponent of open source software.

Chris has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in information systems. Chris has written web applications, databases driven applications, big data systems etc. He's an expert in languages from C to Python, HTML to SQL.

Learn Native graph storage and data processing like a professional.

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What you will learn

• Work with Neo4j
• Define problems that Neo4j can solve
• Interact with Neo4j database via Cypher

Rating: 3.7

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 2 hours

Instructor: Packt Publishing