Jordan, Gregory

Practical Neo4j provides an in-depth look into why developers at places like Facebook and Twitter have increasingly turned to graph databases to manage their highly connected, big data. The book guides you through the background and basics of graphs and gets you quickly up and running with Neo4j. It will walk you through the data modeling stages for projects such as social networks, recommendation engines and geo-based applications. The book also dives into the configuration steps as well as the language options used to create your Neo4j-backed applications.Neo4j runs some of the largest connected datasets in the world, and developing with it offers you a fast, flexible and proven database option.