If you haven't seen it before, I highly recommend first watch this video from fireship on 7 Different Database Paradigms .

Neo4J

Neo4j, a Graph Database, recently released their managed database service Aura which has a free tier. This means us developers can take Neo4J out for a proper test drive and see if this is truly the database of our dreams. In this guide I'll show you how to setup your connections and models in node so that way you can then import and use in your app. The basic idea doesn't really change from language to language.

Step #1 - Setup

Create a new aura account

It will immediately take you to create a database, give it a name and select blank

copy the login credentials given

wait a few minutes for the database to generate itself

once it's done spinning up copy over the DB URI under connect

Step #2 - Setup Node Project

create a folder for your project

npm init -y

Then we will install the Neo4J Object Graph Mapper (OGM) npm install @neo4j/graphql-ogm

Then we will install the…