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Neo4j High Performance
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Neo4j High Performance

by Sonal Raj
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to Cypher

Cypher is a graph query language that is declarative in nature. It supports expressive, efficient execution of queries and the updating of data on graph data stores. Cypher has a simple query construct but its power lies in the fact that we can express very complicated queries in a simple visual manner. This helps a developer to focus on the problem domain rather than worry about access issues of the database.

Cypher as a query language is humane by design. It is developer friendly as well as easily usable by an operations professional. Cypher's goal is making simple things easy and complex things possible; it bases its constructs on basic English prose, which makes queries increasingly self-explanatory. Since it is declarative ...

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