Introduction to Cypher

CypherNeo4j'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 nodesA vertex in a graph. In a property graph it can carry labels and properties. in our graph.