Part 2. Application Development with Neo4j

In part 2 we’ll cover aspects of building applications with Neo4j.

Chapter 6 introduces Cypher, the human graph query language. Cypher provides a language-independent way to both query and manipulate the graph, and this chapter explores how you can use it to interact with your graph domain model. With Neo4j being a fully ACID-compliant database, chapter 7 focuses on transactions, and how you can control and take advantage of this feature to ensure your application can query and store data in a consistent manner. Chapter 8 returns to the traversal API, with an even deeper dive to explore some more advanced options for navigating the graph via this dedicated API.

Chapter 9 introduces Spring Data Neo4j (SDN), a graph object mapping library which, for certain application use cases such as those manipulating a very rich domain model, can prove very useful for speeding up and simplifying development.