Reading

Read about Graph Databases and about Neo. Here are places to start:

• The Wikipedia article
• Some of the Neo4j Developer Guides, starting with What Is A Graph Database?
• Graph Databases vs. Relational Databases
• Graph Databases vs. NoSQL Databases
• The Cypher Query Language

The Assignment

The learning objective for this assignment is to gain a deep understanding of the similarities and differences between relational and graph databases. In the third homework assignment you built a RESTful web service backed by a relational database and wrote a handful of queries. For this, the fourth assignment, you are to:

1. Create a Neo4j database consisting of exactly the same sample data you generated in Homework #3.
2. Write Cypher queries for each of the ad-hoc queries you were assigned in Homework #3.

Use the same repository as you used for Homework #3. Place the Cypher queries in a file called practice.cypher.

That’s all you need to turn in. It will, of course, take quite a bit of effort to “figure it all out” so don’t wait too long to get started.