Database Clinic: Neo4J

Learn about graph databases, and how they can help you understand connected data, using Neo4j.

Introduction

• Navigating the world of connected data

1. Introduction

• What are graph databases
• Types of graph structures for data
• Why graph databases?
• Good graph database use cases and bad graph database use cases
• Introducing Neo4j: A property graph database
• Challenge: Is this a connected data problem?
• Solution: Is this a connected data problem?

2. Getting Started

• Anatomy of a property graph
• Getting up and running with Neo4j
• Hello, world!
• Introducing Cypher
• Challenge: Your first Cypher queries
• Solution: Your first Cypher queries

3. Reading Data

• Introducing the course data set
• MATCHing nodes
• MATCHing nodes and relationships
• Counting and aggregating data
• Beyond one hop
• Challenge: Time to answer some questions
• Solution: Time to answer some questions

4. Writing Data

• CREATEing your data
• Updating and REMOVEing your data
• DELETEing your data
• Challenge: Putting it all together
• Solution: Putting it all together

Conclusion

• What's next?