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neo4j for the relational .NET developer

Talkat NDC London 2026 · 2026-01-26..01-30· [databases]
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Neo4j proves practical for .NET devs: local runs in 3 minutes to run locally via Docker or Neo4j Desktop, or use Aura DB free tier in the cloud; the movie graph dataset loads instantly and Cypher queries like MATCH, MERGE and shortestPath queries are used for traversal. .NET uses the official NuGet Neo4j.Driver to build a small app that finds paths, migration from SQL can be scripted in about an hour, MERGE avoids duplicates, use EXPLAIN/PROFILE for performance and note community vs enterprise DB limits.

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  1. 0:00Neo4j for .NET developers
  2. 1:57Graph vs relational databases
  3. 3:00Install Neo4j locally
  4. 11:29Nodes labels and properties
  5. 16:04Cypher query syntax
  6. 21:19Importing data into Neo4j
  7. 27:17Creating updating and deleting nodes
  8. 31:55Querying relationships
  9. 40:49Query performance tuning
  10. 48:54Graph traversal and paths
  11. 52:46Neo4j with C# and .NET
  12. 1:01:05Q&A
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