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Neo4j & Cypher Tutorial : Getting Started with a Graph Database and its Query Language

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 datab...