Step by Step installaton guide to Neo4j

Introduction

Neo4j is a kind of NoSQL database fits best in the case where in a connected set of all nodes,edges satisfy a given predicate, starting from a given node.A classic example may be any social engineering site.

In this step by step article, we will learn how to install Neo4j on a Windows machine.

Environment Setup

In order to download Neo4j, please visit Neo4j.Click on the Download Community Edition button.

The download will start automatically.The file size is around 82.4MB.

Click on the installer

In the next screen it will ask for the location for the Neo4j to be installed.Specify the folder location and click next.

Click on the Next button and the Neo4J Community Setup Edition Wizard will popup

Choose the "EULA" Aggrement and click on the Next button.

Choose the "Create start menu folder" and click on the Next button.

The installation will start

Finally, the final wizard screen will appear stating "Setup has finished installing Neo4j Community Edition" message

Click on "Finish" button. In order to check if Neo4j is up and running, let us click on the Start button

If everything goes fine, thne after a few second, the Neo4J server status will be as under

So, let us browse to http://localhost:7474/(we are using Google Chrome browser version 48.0.2564.109 m) and the below screen will appear

We can figure out that the Default username/password: neo4j/neo4j. Let us provide the same username(neo4j) and password(neo4j) and click on the Connect button.

Now let us choose a password of our choice and click on Set Password. That's it

Reference

Conclusion

Hope this will be helpful for the absolute beginners and will serve as a reference guide as how to install Neo4J on a Windows OS.Thanks for reading.