about this book
This book is written for anyone building applications using graph databases. It is designed to provide a foundational understanding of graphs and graph databases, as well as to provide a framework for building applications using common graph database patterns. To teach this framework, this book follows the development lifecycle of a fictitious application called DiningByFriends. We use this application throughout the book to provide a realistic grounding of graph principles and examples of the concepts and content we teach. In many areas throughout this book, we compare and contrast the differences between building a graph-backed application and using the more traditional relational database model. By the end of this book, you will not only have the skills needed to build your own graph-backed application, but you will have built your first application, DiningByFriends.