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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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Cypher graph operations

Cypher is a whiteboard-friendly language. Like the data on which it is used, queries in Cypher follow a diagrammatic approach in their syntax. This helps to target the use of graph databases to a greater variety of audience including database admins, developers, corporate professionals, and even the common folk. Let's take a look at some Cypher queries before diving into the best practices and optimizations for Cypher.

The following pattern shown depicts three entities interrelated through a relationship denoting the NEEDS dependency. It is represented in the form of an ASCII art:

(A)-[:NEEDS]->(B)-[:NEEDS]->(C), (A)-[:NEEDS]->(C)

The previous statement is in the form of a path that links entity A to B, then B to C, and finally ...

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ISBN: 9781783555154