Neo4j Spring Data Skill

When to Use

• Configuring Spring Boot with Neo4j (spring-boot-starter-data-neo4j)
• Writing @Node entity classes and @Relationship/@RelationshipProperties mappings
• Defining Neo4jRepository or ReactiveNeo4jRepository interfaces
• Writing @Query annotations with Cypher on repository methods
• Using Spring projections (interface-based, DTO, dynamic) with Neo4j
• Configuring application.yml for Neo4j connection
• Custom queries via Neo4jClient or Neo4jTemplate
• Spring AI Neo4jVectorStore for vector search in Spring apps
• Transaction management, auditing, optimistic locking

When NOT to Use