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Learning Cypher

Write powerful and efficient queries for Neo4j with Cypher, its official query language

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|Sep 2025

Key Features

    Book Description

    An easy-to-follow guide full of tips and examples of real-world applications. In each chapter, a thorough example will show you the concepts in action, followed by a detailed explanation.

    This book is intended for those who want to learn how to create, query, and maintain a graph database, or who want to migrate to a graph database from SQL. It would be helpful to have some familiarity with Java and/or SQL, but no prior experience is required.

    What you will learn

    • Design and create flexible and fast graph databases using the Cypher declarative syntax
    • Write powerful, readable, and reusable queries with pattern matching and parameters
    • Develop fast applications using best practices to improve the performance of your Cypher queries
    • Transition smoothly from SQL to Neo4j
    • Migrate relational databases to the graph model, getting rid of O/R mismatch
    • Avoid the common mistakes and pitfalls in programming with Neo4j

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78328-776-5
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 162

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