Neo4j Cookbook

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Neo4j Cookbook

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About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Neo4j

Introduction

Single node installation of Neo4j over Linux

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Single node installation of Neo4j over Windows

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Single node installation of Neo4j over Mac OS X

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Creating your first graph with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Importing data from the CSV format to Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using a batch importer

Using custom scripts

How it works...

See also

Importing data from RDBMS to Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using the Neo4j SQL importer tool

Using custom scripts

How it works...

There's more…

Importing data from the Geoff format to Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Bulk load

See also

Importing data from OrientDB to Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

Exporting in the JSON format

Using Gremlin

How it works...

See also

Importing data from InfiniteGraph to Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Importing data from the DEX graph database to Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Common configurations of Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Running multiple instances of Neo4j over a single machine

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Building Neo4j from the source

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

2. Connecting to Neo4j

Introduction

Accessing Neo4j from the command line using the Neo4j shell

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing Neo4j from the command line using curl

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing Neo4j from the Java libraries

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing Neo4j using the Java REST bindings

Getting ready

How to do it...

Developing your own Neo4j REST client

Using the Java Neo4j REST binding

How it works...

Mapping Neo4j to Java-annotated classes using Spring Data Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

Graph Entities

How it works...

Accessing the embedded Neo4j from Python

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing Neo4j from Python using the REST bindings

Getting ready

How to do it...

Annotate the Python object model to the Neo4j graph database

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing the embedded Neo4j from Ruby

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Accessing Neo4j from Ruby using the REST Bindings

Getting ready

How to do it...

Accessing Neo4j from Scala

How to do it...

Accessing Neo4j from .NET

How to do it...

Accessing Neo4j from PHP

Getting ready

How to do it…

Accessing Neo4j from Node.js

Getting ready

How to do it…

3. The Cypher Query Language

Introduction

Creating your first node and relationship using Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Querying nodes and relationships using Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Deleting data from Neo4j using the Cypher query

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Boolean operators with Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Changing the order of results with Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Limiting and skipping results with Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Regular expressions with Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Aggregation with Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Combining results with Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Finding paths in Cypher along with their shortest route

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

4. Data Modeling and Leveraging with Neo4j

Introduction

Data modeling with Neo4j – moving away from traditional SQL

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Aggregate versus connected data models

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

The connected model

The aggregated model

The hybrid model

Creating a binary search tree with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Healthcare data modeling with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Travel data modeling with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Social data modeling with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Retail data modeling with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

5. Mining the Social Treasure

Introduction

Finding mutual friends with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Finding friends of friends with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Activity streaming with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Finding user similarity with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Network reachability with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

6. Developing Location-based Services with Neo4j

Introduction

Installing the Neo4j Spatial extension

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Importing the Esri shapefiles

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Importing the OpenStreetMap files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Importing data using the REST API

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Creating a point layer using the REST API

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Finding geometries within the bounding box

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Finding geometries within a distance

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Finding geometries within a distance using Cypher

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

7. Visualization of Graphs

Introduction

Visualization using the Neo4j console

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Viewing your graph with Linkurious

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

The Neo4j graph with Gephi

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Visualization with Neoeclipse

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

8. Industry Usages of Neo4j

Introduction

Healthcare with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

The social networking industry with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

The travel industry with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

E-commerce with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

9. Neo4j Administration and Maintenance

Introduction

Deploying Neo4j over the Amazon EC2 Cloud

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Deploying Neo4j over the Heroku Cloud

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

Deploying Neo4j over the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

Backups with Neo4j

Getting ready

How to do it...

Neo4j backup with Community Edition

Neo4j backup with Enterprise Edition

There's more…

Upgrading Neo4j to the latest version

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

Neo4j's remote debugging setup

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

Configuring secure access to your Neo4j instance

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more…

10. Scaling Neo4j

Introduction

A bulk upload of the initial large dataset

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

The high availability setup

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Handling high read loads

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Handling high write loads

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Optimizing the Cypher query for performance

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Index

Neo4j Cookbook

Neo4j Cookbook

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Credits

Author

Ankur Goel

Reviewers

Onofrio Panzarino

Ignaz Wanders

Commissioning Editor

James Jones

Acquisition Editor

James Jones

Content Development Editor

Ruchita Bhansali

Technical Editor

Narsimha Pai

Copy Editors

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Ankur Goel has been passionate about software development for a long time. He is particularly interested in exploring upcoming technologies in the areas of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He started his career with CDAC High Performance Computing Lab, where he worked on the PARAM series of supercomputers and built real-world use cases around them. He has been working for start-up companies and research labs for most of his career.

He also enjoys working with start-ups that are in the stealth mode stage, and helps them with their technology stack.

He lives in the beautiful city of Chandigarh, India, with his pretty wife and cute newborn daughter.

This book and all of the work that went on around it would not have been possible without the unconditional support of my wife, Pooja, and mother, Santosh. During this book, my daughter, Aradhita, came into our life, so I've been taking care of both the babies together, my first book and our first child.

I would also like to thank the amazing people at Neo4j Technologies for introducing the power of graph databases to the world and also for keeping everyone on their toes by introducing cool features frequently.

Special thanks to the reviewers and editors at Packt Publishing, especially Ruchita and Narsimha, without whose efforts this work would not have been possible.

About the Reviewers

Onofrio Panzarino is a programmer with 15 years of experience, working with various languages (mostly with Java), platforms, and technologies. Before receiving his master of science degree in electronics engineering, he worked as a digital signal processor programmer. Around the same time, he started working as a C++ developer for real-time embedded systems and PCs. Currently, he is working with Android, ASP.NET C#, and JavaScript. During these years, he gained a lot of experience in graph databases, particularly in Neo4j.

Onofrio is the author of Learning Cypher, by Packt Publishing, in 2014. He also reviewed Fast ASP.NET Websites, by Manning Publications.

He resides in Ancona, Italy. He is a speaker in the local Java user group and also a technical writer, mostly for Scala and NoSQL. In his spare time, he loves playing the piano with his family and programming with functional languages. His Twitter handle is @onof80.

Ignaz Wanders is an enterprise architect who specializes in integration and data architectures. He is an expert in service-oriented architecture and in applying top-down methodologies to achieve his goals.

Ignaz has great practical experience in ESBs, BPM, Neo4j, Java EE, and a wide variety of supporting frameworks and tools.

He is a speaker at international conferences and his astronomical background facilitates a strong analytical mind and excellent problem-solving skills.

Ignaz works for Archimiddle and offers consultancy to a variety of customers, ranging from government institutions to telecom and logistics.

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