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Faux Bitmap Indexes in Neo4j

If you’ve ever watched my talks about Neo4j, I tend to say we’re not very well optimized for Single Model queries where relationships aren’t considered. In fact, we’re kinda bad at it. Things got better when Composite Indexes were introduced, but we still have some limitations to deal with. Today we’re going to explore the issues and build our own faux “bitmap indexes” to get around this problem.
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Enabling Legacy Automatic Full Text Search on Neo4j 3.x

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Neo4j 3.x has made inroads toward Full Text Search capabilities using Cypher keywords “STARTS WITH”, “ENDS WITH” and “CONTAINS”. However this search capability is limited to a single Schema Index and can be a problem when you need a very flexible search interface. To search across multiple models you can do this trick:
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