Learning Cypher

About This Book

Improve performance and robustness when you create, query, and maintain your graph database

Save time by writing powerful queries using pattern matching

Step-by-step instructions and practical examples to help you create a Neo4j graph database using Cypher

Who This Book Is For

If you want to learn how to create, query, and maintain a graph database, or want to migrate to a graph database from SQL, this is the book for you.

What You Will Learn

Design and create flexible and fast graph databases using the Cypher declarative syntax

Write powerful, readable, and reusable queries with pattern matching and parameters

Develop fast applications using best practices to improve the performance of your Cypher queries

Transition smoothly from SQL to Neo4j

Migrate relational databases to the graph model, getting rid of O/R mismatch

Avoid the common mistakes and pitfalls in programming with Neo4j