Learning Cypher: May 2014

About the book

Learning Cypher is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, implementing, and querying a Neo4j database quickly and painlessly. Through a number of practical examples, book uncovers all the behaviors that will helps taking advantage of Neo4j effectively, with tips and tricks to help along the way. The book starts with the basic clauses and patterns to perform read-only queries with Cypher. With this book one can master the clauses required to modify a graph. Once the basics are understood properly, then one can learn about tools and practices to improve the performance of queries and how to migrate a database to Neo4j from the ground up. To finish off, the book covers Cypher operators and functions in detail.

This book is useful for anyone who wants to learn how to create, query, and maintain a graph database, or want to migrate to a graph database from SQL.

Friday, May 23, 2014

Book Give-away

Book Give-away: Hold a chance to win free copy of the Learning Cypher, just by commenting! For the contest we have 3 copies of Learning Cypher, to be given away to 3 lucky winners.

How you can win:

To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up with a comment below highlighting the reason "why you would like to win this book”.

Duration of the contest & selection of winners:

The contest is valid for a week from 24th to 31st of May, and is open to everyone. Winners will be selected on the basis of their comment posted.

Update

The winners (David, Imran and Ie) will be contacted via e-mail for further instructions.

Thank you all