Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6Neo4J

A bungee cord is a helpful tool because you can use it to tie together the most disparate of things, no matter how awkwardly shaped or ill fitting they may be. In a lot of ways, Neo4j is the bungee cord of databases, a system intended not so much to store information about things as to tie them together and record their connections with each other.

Neo4j is a member of a family of databases known as graph databases because it stores data as a graph (in the mathematical sense). Neo4j is known for being “whiteboard friendly” because virtually any diagram that you can draw using boxes and lines on a whiteboard can be stored in Neo4j.

Neo4j focuses more on the relationships between values than on the commonalities among sets ...