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Neo4j in Action
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Neo4j in Action

by Dominic Fox, Tareq Abedrabbo, Jonas Partner, Nicki Watt, Aleksa Vukotic
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
10h 33m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 8. Traversals in depth

This chapter covers

  • How traversal ordering impacts performance and memory footprint
  • Using expanders during traversal
  • Controlling the number of visits to each node using the uniqueness property
  • Improving graph query performance using bidirectional traversals

Writing efficient traversals is the key to successfully querying graph data. You learned the basic concepts of the Neo4j Traversal API in chapter 4. In this chapter we’re going to dig a little deeper into the inner workings of the Traversal API so you can learn how to solve the most complex graph problems in an efficient manner.

8.1. Traversal ordering

Every time a traverser visits a node, it needs to make a decision about which relationship to follow ...

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