Quick Start

A five-minute path to a running node and your first query.

Start the server

Start a single self-leading node (quorum of 1 — no peers needed):

docker run -p 21001:21001 -p 7687:7687 -v "$PWD/serverdata:/data" \
  patinadb/patinadb --auth-user neo4j --auth-password secret

(Or run the patinadb-raft binary directly the same way if you have it installed on the host: patinadb-raft --id 1 --addr 127.0.0.1:21001 --db ./serverdata --bootstrap --auth-user neo4j --auth-password secret.)

This exposes:

• REST on 127.0.0.1:21001 — POST /cypher
• Bolt on 127.0.0.1:7687 — for Neo4j drivers and the Browser

Query over REST:

curl -s -u neo4j:secret -X POST 127.0.0.1:21001/cypher \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query": "CREATE (n:Person {name: \"Ada\"}) RETURN n"}'

Connect the Neo4j Browser (browser.neo4j.io) to bolt://localhost:7687 with user neo4j / password secret, and run Cypher interactively — including graph visualisation of returned nodes and paths.

Connect an official driver (Python shown):

from neo4j import GraphDatabase
drv = GraphDatabase.driver("bolt://localhost:7687", auth=("neo4j", "secret"))
with drv.session() as s:
    for rec in s.run("MATCH (n:Person) RETURN n.name AS name"):
        print(rec["name"])

From here:

• Add nodes for High Availability.
• Host more than one graph with Multi-Database.
• Lock it down with Authentication & TLS.