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Neo4j Graph Data Modelling

You're reading from   Neo4j Graph Data Modelling Design efficient and flexible databases by optimizing the power of Neo4j

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393441
Length 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mahesh K Lal Mahesh K Lal
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Graphs Are Everywhere FREE CHAPTER 2. Modeling Flights and Cities 3. Formulating an Itinerary 4. Modeling Bookings and Users 5. Refactoring the Data Model 6. Modeling Communication Chains 7. Modeling Access Control 8. Recommendations and Analysis of Historical Data 9. Wrapping Up Index

Creating bookings and users in Neo4j


For bookings to exist, we should create users in our data model.

Note

As with earlier chapters, please download the queries from the downloadable code bundle available with this book. Alternatively, the queries can also be downloaded from https://github.com/maheshlal2910/neo4j_graph_data_modelling.

Creating users

To create users, we create a constraint on the e-mail of the user, which we will use as an unique identifier as shown in the following query:

neo4j-sh (?)$ CREATE CONSTRAINT ON (user:User) ASSERT user.email IS UNIQUE;

The output of the preceding query is as follows:

+-------------------+
| No data returned. |
+-------------------+
Constraints added: 1

With the constraint added, let's create a few users in our system:

neo4j-sh (?)$ CREATE (:User{name:"Mahesh Lal", email:"[email protected]"}),
  (:User{name:"John Doe", email:"[email protected]"}),
  (:User{name:"Vishal P", email:"[email protected]"}),
  (:User{name:"Dave Coeburg", email:"dave.coeburg...
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