The Neo4j Manual v1.4.2

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. File system tuning for high IO

2.4. 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. Cypher Query Language

4.1. Identifiers

4.2. Start

4.3. Match

4.4. Where

4.5. Return

4.6. Aggregation

4.7. Order by

4.8. Skip

4.9. Limit

4.10. Functions in Cypher

5. Neo4j Server

5.1. Server Installation

5.2. Server Configuration

5.3. Setup for remote debugging

5.4. Starting the Neo4j server in high availability mode

5.5. Using the server with an embedded database

5.6. Server Performance Tuning

6. REST API

6.1. Service root

6.2. Nodes

6.3. Relationships

6.4. Relationship types

6.5. Node properties

6.6. Relationship properties

6.7. Indexes

6.8. Auto-Indexes

6.9. Configurable Auto-Indexing

6.10. Traversals

6.11. Built-in Graph Algorithms

6.12. Batch operations

6.13. Gremlin Plugin

6.14. Cypher Plugin

7. Indexing

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Create

7.3. Delete

7.4. Add

7.5. Remove

7.6. Update

7.7. Search

7.8. Relationship indexes

7.9. Scores

7.10. Configuration and fulltext indexes

7.11. Extra features for Lucene indexes

7.12. Batch insertion

7.13. Automatic Indexing

8. Graph Algorithms

8.1. Introduction

9. High Availability

9.1. Architecture

9.2. Setup and configuration

9.3. How Neo4j HA operates

10. Operations

10.1. Backup

10.2. Security

10.3. Monitoring

II. Tutorials

11. Graph Database Concepts

11.1. What is a Graph Database?

11.2. Comparing Database Models

11.3. The Neo4j Graph Database

12. Using Neo4j embedded in Java applications

12.1. Include Neo4j in your project

12.2. Hello world

12.3. User database with index

12.4. Traversal

12.5. Domain entities

12.6. Graph Algorithm examples

12.7. Reading a management attribute

12.8. Uniqueness of Paths in traversals

III. Tools

13. Web Administration

13.1. Dashboard tab

13.2. Data tab

13.3. Console tab

13.4. The Server Info tab

14. Neo4j Shell

14.1. Starting the shell

14.2. Passing options and arguments

14.3. Enum options

14.4. Filters

14.5. Node titles

14.6. How to use (individual commands)

14.7. Extending the shell: Adding your own commands

14.8. An example shell session

14.9. A Matrix example

IV. Troubleshooting

15. Troubleshooting guide

16. 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