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Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition
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Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition

by Jerome Baton, Rik Van Bruggen
October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
316 pages
8h
English
Packt Publishing
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Using rich properties

As it is actually a best practice to have a very granular model in in-graph database systems, the opposite of this can often be an anti-pattern. Using properties on a node that are ostensibly too rich (as shown in the following figure), can be much better solved by leveraging the model, splitting off the properties into separate nodes, and connecting them using a relationship:

Using rich properties

Look at the following diagram for a potential solution to this anti-pattern:

Granulating rich properties
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