Neo4j graph data modeling : design efficient and flexible databases by optimizing the power of Neo4j / Mahesh Lal ; acquisition editor Shaon Basu ; content development editor Kirti Patil ; copy editor Pranjali Chury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lal, Mahesh, author.

Contributor:

Basu, Shaon, editor.

Patil, Kirti, editor.

Chury, Pranjali, editor.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Database design.

Databases--Development.

Databases.

Databases--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (138 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Design efficient and flexible databases by optimizing the power of Neo4j

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

If you are a developer who wants to understand the fundamentals of modeling data in Neo4j and how it can be used to model full-fledged applications, then this book is for you. Some understanding of domain modeling may be advantageous but is not essential.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Graphs are Everywhere""; ""Graphs in mathematics""; ""The property graph model""; ""Storage � native graph storage versus non-native graph storage""; ""Reasons to use graph databases""; ""What to use a graph database for""; ""Choosing Neo4j for exploring graph databases""; ""The structure of the book""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Modeling Flights and Cities""; ""Graphs are more than social""

""Designing a system to get a travel itinerary""""Modeling flights and cities""; ""Identifying the entities""; ""Modeling nodes and relationships""; ""Using Cypher to operate on Neo4j""; ""Creating cities in Neo4j""; ""Indices""; ""Adding flights to Neo4j""; ""Traversing relationships""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Formulating an Itinerary""; ""Creating an itinerary from flights and cities""; ""Information and paths""; ""Using Cypher to find a path""; ""Business logic should lie in code""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 4: Modeling Bookings and Users""; ""Building a data model for booking flights""

""A simple model of the bookings ecosystem""""Modeling bookings in an RDBMS""; ""Creating bookings and users in Neo4j""; ""Creating users""; ""Creating bookings in Neo4j""; ""Queries to find journeys and bookings""; ""Finding all journeys of a user""; ""Queries for finding the booking history of a user""; ""Upcoming journeys of a user""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 5: Refactoring the Data Model""; ""Capturing information about hotels at airports""; ""Modeling airports and hotels""; ""Extracting airport information from flights""; ""Breaking airport out as a node""

""Connecting flights to airports""""Delinking flights and cities""; "" Querying the refactored data model""; ""Reasons for not migrating using a single query""; ""Adding hotels to airports""; ""Fetching hotels""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 6: Modeling Communication Chains""; ""Capturing traveler reviews for hotels""; ""A model for reviews and comments""; ""Adding reviews to Neo4j""; ""Listing reviews for a hotel""; ""Using reviews to find the average rating of a hotel""; ""Adding comments to Neo4j""; ""Considerations for modeling temporal data as chains""; ""Summary""

""Chapter 7: Modeling Access Control""""Controlling access for content change""; ""Modeling hierarchies""; ""Modeling geographical regions""; ""Adding countries and regions to Neo4j""; ""Modeling hotel chains""; ""Adding hotel chains to Neo4j""; ""Modeling access control groups and employees""; ""Adding access groups to Neo4j""; ""Adding employees to Neo4j""; ""Querying the data model to find what is accessible to an employee""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 8: Recommendations and Analysis of Historical Data""; ""Recommending cities to travelers""; ""Modeling categories""

""Creating categories in Neo4j""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 8, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784397302

178439730X

OCLC:

915154304