March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 32m
English
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Migration techniques for SQL users
Neo4j has been around for just a few years, while most organizations that are trying to move into business intelligence and analytics have their decades of data piled up in SQL databases. So, rather than moving or transforming the data, it is better to fit in a graph database along with the existing one in order to make the process a less disruptive one.
Handling dual data stores
The two databases in our system are arranged in a way that the already-in-place MySQL database will continue being the primary mode of storage. Neo4j acts as the secondary storage and works on small related subsets of data. This would be done in two specific ways:
- Online mode for transactions that are critical for essential business decisions ...