Introduction

Neo4j is a highly scalable, fully transactional ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) graph database that stores data structured as graphs. It allows developers to achieve excellent performance in queries over large, complex graph datasets and at the same time, it is very simple and intuitive to use. This chapter consists of readymade recipes that allow users to hit the ground running with Neo4j. There are several recipes to set up Neo4j over a wide array of platforms, such as Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, and so on. Neo4j runs in different configuration modes: server and embedded inside application. Both of these configuration modes has been fully explained in this chapter. This chapter also includes common configurations of the key configuration files.