Neo4j: The Definitive Guide

Table of contents

1. Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
2. 1. How to Get Value from Graphs in Just Five Days
   1. Dissonance at ElectricHarmony
   2. Why Graph Databases?
   3. Graph Use Cases
   4. Neo4j
      1. Native graph databases
   5. Cypher
   6. The song recommendation system: A proof of concept
      1. Day 1
      2. Day 2
      3. Day 3
      4. Day 4
      5. Day 5
      6. Summary
3. 2. Importing (Much) More Data
   1. Database transactions
   2. The heap box
   3. The CALL IN TRANSACTIONS operation
   4. Try it: Importing data from client applications
      1. Cypher query parameters
      2. Batch sizing
   5. Parallel writes
      1. Competing for memory
      2. Locking mechanisms
      3. Simultaneous updates to nodes and relationships
      4. Creating nodes and relationships concurrently
      5. Adding relationships concurrently
   6. Offline import
   7. Summary
4. 3. Data Modeling
   1. It Depends
   2. Principles of Modelling
   3. Properties vs. Nodes
      1. Properties that decorate the result
      2. Traversing across commonalities
      3. Modelling concepts as labels
   4. Node Fanout
      1. Key takeaways
   5. Supernodes
      1. Key takeaways
   6. Relationship Granularity
      1. Quantified Relationships
      2. Bucketed Relationships
      3. Key takeaways
   7. Bidirectional Relationships
      1. Key takeaways
   8. Summary
5. 4. Modelling and Refactoring Patterns
   1. Hyperedges– N-way Relationships
      1. Key takeaways
   2. Time-based Versioning
      1. Key takeaways
   3. Representing Sequences
      1. Finding the last track in a playlist
      2. Maintaining track order
      3. Key takeaways
   4. Refactoring Patterns
      1. Refactoring to change the type of a relationship
      2. Refactoring to create a node from a property
      3. Refactoring to create a node from a relationship
      4. Key takeaways
   5. Summary
6. 5. Query Analysis and Tuning
   1. Query Execution
      1. Pattern Anchors
      2. Query Profiling
      3. Row Cardinality
   2. Matching Disconnected Patterns
   3. Increasing Anchor Selectivity
      1. Eliminating Redundant Filter Operations
      2. Improving anchor selectivity in queries with predicates
      3. Indexing Guidelines
   4. Node Degrees
   5. Don’t Be Eager!
      1. Sorting
   6. I Want to Break Free (of the Planner)
   7. Cypher Runtimes
   8. Parameterizing Queries
   9. Monitoring and Measuring Query Times
   10. Summary
7. 6. Search
   1. What Is Search?
      1. Text
      2. Indexes
   2. Searching for Data
      1. Partial Searches
   3. Text Indexes
   4. Full-Text Indexes
      1. Multi-token searches
      2. Phrase Searches
      3. Wildcard searches
      4. Fuzzy search
   5. Additional Index and Query Considerations
      1. Tokenization
      2. Special Characters: Hashtags and Mentions
      3. Identifiers, IP addresses, and other nonword terms
      4. Stopwords: To be or not to be
      5. Performance with graph patterns
   6. Summary
8. About the Authors