Getting Started

Graph Database Concepts

Nodes Nodes are commonly used to represent entities or things in your data. For example, a Person or Movie
Relationships Relationships are used to connect two nodes together and organise the data into structure. For example, a Person acted in a movie. A relationship has a type and direction, although the direction can be ignored at query time.
Labels Labels are used to group nodes into categories. For example, a person may have Person and Actor labels.
Relationship Type Each relationship has a type. Relationships allow you to explore smaller sections of a graph.
Properties Both nodes and relationships can have properties set against them. Properties are name-value pairs.

Getting Started with Neo4j

Neo4j is a Graph Database consisting of nodes connected together by relationships. You might consider using a Graph database if you have a highly connected dataset or have queries with many joins.

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