Introduction to Cypher
iFull definition for Cypher (opens in a new tab)Neo4j's implementation of GQL, the ISO standard query language for graph databases. It is declarative: you describe the pattern to find, and the database decides how to find it. is a query language designed for graphs.
The whiteboard model of our domain entities is stored in the database as a graph. When we draw a graph on the whiteboard, we represent entities as circles connected together using arrows. In this example, the entities are people and movies. We have Person and Movie iFull definition for node (opens in a new tab)A vertex in a graph. In a property graph it can carry labels and properties. in our graph.
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