Neo4j Querying for SQL People
Remember how useful it was to see how MapReduce translates to SQL? In a similar vein, Andrés Taylor dives into Cypher, the Neo4j querying language introduced in Neo4j 1.4, explaining it from the perspective of an SQL person:
Unlike SQL which operates on sets, Cypher predominantly works on subgraphs. The relational equivalent is the current set of tuples being evaluated during a SELECT query.
Original title and link: Neo4j Querying for SQL People (©myNoSQL)
via: http://systay.github.com/blog/2011/11/06/cypher---a-view-from-a-recovering-sql-dba/
