Thanks that is a pretty quick reply i appreciate your response that helps my understanding.
And so now I'm trying the example in the Design Guide section. But it asks me to create the RelationShipTypes by following the instructions in Getting started but its not that clear. And moreover where do i initialize this data and do you have any sample data for those Customer and Orders that i can use. GraphDatabaseService graphDb = new EmbeddedGraphDatabase( "var/graphdb" ); On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > Neo4j is a database + API. Thus, Neo4j will persist your data for you (in a > directory) and will expose that data logically as a graph for you (JavaDoc > API). > > Neo4j is NOT a graph API over an existing database (e.g. MySQL). > > Hope that helps, > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > > On May 2, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Anil Tatikonda wrote: > > > I have read through the Getting Started on Neo4j this morning. > > I understood that this a graphical database representation of our data. > > > > But its very hard to imagine in terms of our Application. So where does > the > > data stay lets just say we have Customers and Orders like your example > where > > does all that data live??? in a file locally or somewhere in the database > > again and Neo4j is just a graphical representation of the same data ???? > > > > Thanks > > Anil Tatikonda > > _______________________________________________ > > Neo4j mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
