You have a general idea of what Graph Databases - and Neo4j in particular - are... But how to get started? Read on! This article is part 3 of a growing, ongoing series on Graph Databases and Neo4j If you're new to graph databases, please check out part 1 for an intro and motivation about them. There, we discussed an example about an extremely simple database involving actors, movies and directors... and saw how easy the Cypher query language makes it to answer questions such as "which directors have worked with Tom Hanks in 2016" - questions that, when done with relational databases and SQL, turn into a monster of a query and an overly-complicated data model involving a whopping 5 tables! In this tutorial, we will actually carry out that query - and get acquainted with Cypher and the Neo4j browser interface in the process. This is the dataset we'll be constructing: Get the database in place If you don't already have a database installed locally