The Neo4j Manual v1.3

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Who should read this

2. Neo4j highlights

I. Reference Documentation

1. Installation & Deployment

1.1. Deployment Scenarios

1.2. System Requirements

1.3. Installation

1.4. Upgrading

1.5. Usage Data Collector

2. Configuration & Performance

2.1. Caches in Neo4j

2.2. JVM Settings

2.3. Compressed storage of short strings

3. Transaction management

3.1. Interaction cycle

3.2. Isolation levels

3.3. Default locking behavior

3.4. Deadlocks

3.5. Delete semantics

4. Neo4j Server

4.1. Server Installation

4.2. Server Configuration

4.3. Setup for remote debugging

4.4. Starting the Neo4j server in high availability mode

4.5. Server Plugins

4.6. Tuning the server performance

4.7. Unmanaged Extensions

5. Indexing

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Create

5.3. Delete

5.4. Add

5.5. Remove

5.6. Update

5.7. Search

5.8. Relationship indices

5.9. Scores

5.10. Configuration and fulltext indices

5.11. Extra features for Lucene indices

5.12. Batch insertion

6. Graph Algorithms

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Path finding examples

7. High Availability

7.1. Architecture

7.2. Setup and configuration

7.3. How Neo4j HA operates

8. Operations

8.1. Backup

8.2. Security

8.3. Monitoring

II. Tools

9. Web Administration

9.1. Dashboard tab

9.2. Data tab

9.3. Console tab

9.4. The JMX tab

10. Neo4j Shell

10.1. Starting the shell

10.2. Passing options and arguments

10.3. Enum options

10.4. Filters

10.5. Node titles

10.6. How to use (individual commands)

10.7. Extending the shell: Adding your own commands

III. Troubleshooting

11. Troubleshooting guide

12. Community support

A. Manpages

neo4j — Neo4j Server control and management

neo4j-shell — a command-line tool for exploring and manipulating a graph database

neo4j-coordinator — Neo4j Coordinator for High-Availability clusters

neo4j-coordinator-shell — Neo4j Coordinator Shell interactive interface