Ian Robinson (13)

This is a book how to use Neo4j. There are quite a few code samples on how to build and use the queries. Many capabilities of Neo4j are explained in-depth in this book - safe to say "one stop shop" for Neo4j. By introducing index-free adjacency at the beginning of the book itself helped me to compare it with other types of database systems which are discussed in the later chapters.

It shows advantages over RDBMS and NoSQL data stores. How I have to adhere to foreign key constraints just to fit my data model was especially enlightening. The challenges with reciprocal queries were well illustrated as well.

Chapters on modeling have a wealth of information supported by real-world use cases. Predictive modeling is also touched upon towards the final chapters.

I expected chapters or sections on the below:
1. Performance tests of reads/writes compared with other database systems
2. When and where should I NOT use Graph Database… (mais)