2 Getting Started

In this guide you are going to learn how to build the Neo4j Movies example application, which is implemented in a variety of languages as the official example application for using Neo4j.

For those unfamiliar with Neo4j, it is a Graph database that optimizes Graph traversal, something that is relatively slow on a traditional relational database.

The goal of GORM for Neo4j is to make it easy to map an existing Groovy domain model with Neo4j nodes and relationships.

To complete this guide, you will need the following:

You will also need to Download and Install the "Community Edition" of Neo4j.

For the Mac, Neo4j comes as a DMG containing the Neo4j server and can simply be installed directly into your Applications folder:

Once the Neo4j server application is running specify a data directory and click the "Start" button:

This will start Neo4j on the default port which is 7474, you can now access the Neo4j administrative UI using the link provided by the application:

Now you can login to Neo4j with the default username and password, which are neo4j and neo4j:

Once you are prompted to login you will be asked to change the password. Change the value to "movies" for this tutorial:

To get started do the following:

or

The Grails guides repositories contain two folders:

To complete the guide, go to the initial folder

and follow the instructions in the next sections.