After reading this chapter, you should be able to deploy a Neo4j database either on a single server or using cluster and sharding techniques. You should also be aware of the best practices for using the GDS with big data and the limitations of this plugin.
With this chapter, we have closed the loop we started in Chapter 1, Graph Databases, where you first started learning about graphs, graph databases, and Neo4j. Chapter 2, The Cypher Query Language, taught you how to insert data into Neo4j and query it using the visual query language known as Cypher. Chapter 3, Empowering Your Business with Pure Cypher, gave you the opportunity to use Cypher to build knowledge graphs and to perform some natural language processing (NLP) using a third-party library built by Graph Aware.
In Chapter 4, The Graph Data Science Library and Path Finding, you learned about the basics of the Graph Data Science library. Developed and supported by Neo4j, this plugin is the starting point for data science...