Complete Guide to Neo4j in 2020
What is Neo4j? Neo4j is an open source, NoSQL and native graph database which provides an ACID-compliant transactional backend for your applications. If we talk about the origin of Neo4j, then its development was started in 2003 but it was available for use in 2007. Its source code was written in JAVA and Scala languages. It was free of cost available in on GitHub or as a user-friendly desktop application download. Neo4j has 2 editions i.e. community edition and enterprise edition. Enterprise Edition is an upgraded version of community version with the extra enterprise requirements such as backups, clustering, and failover abilities. As it efficiently implements the property graph model down to the storage level, it is known as native graph database. Data is stored exactly as you whiteboard it, and the database uses pointers to navigate and traverse the graph. In contrast to graph processing or in-memory libraries, Neo4j also provides full database characteristics, inc...