Memgraph Best Practices

This repository holds examples to ease the use of Memgraph. It will be covering various topics important for any Memgraph user.

Content

🟢 Graph Modeling Best Practices

Learn the tips & tricks on how to best model your data and what to look after before you decide to import it.

🗂️ Import Best Practices

After installing Memgraph, the first step is data import. Whether you're migrating from another database or creating a new dataset, tips & tricks from the Import Best Practices will speed up your import process, especially on a larger scale.

If you're migrating from other databases, check the examples that use the migrate module.

❓ Querying Best Practices

Querying Memgraph via Cypher is a common operation that needs to be properly optimized. Querying Best Practices will show how to query Memgraph and write Cypher so the queries are executed as fast as possible with the least amount of resources.

🚀 Deployment Best Practices

Deploy Memgraph using methods that suit your environment, whether it's containerized with Docker or a native Linux installation.

List of best practices

Debugging

• Generating a core dump with Memgraph in Docker Compose

GraphQL

• Simple application with Memgraph and Neo4j GraphQL

High availability (HA)

• Docker deployment
• Docker compose deployment

Import

Java

• Simple Java app with ingestion and querying

Memgraph Lab

• Memgraph Community with Memgraph Lab deployment in Docker compose
• Memgraph Lab Enterprise Edition deployment in Docker compose
• Memgraph Lab Enterprise Edition with remote storage deployment in Docker compose
• Memgraph Lab Enterprise Edition with separate remote storage deployment in Docker compose

Python

• GQLAlchemy basic example of creating and reading nodes

Querying

• Explain and profile of the query
• Path traversals tutorial

Time-to-live

• Node TTL demo

Triggers

• Triggers write-write conflict demonstration

User management

• Creating a read only user

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