›From Cypher to Native Projection
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From Cypher to Native Projection

You may have been using 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. projectionsAn in-memory copy of part of your database that graph algorithms run against. You choose which nodes and relationships it holds. when working with GDSAnalysing data through the structure of its connections. Also the name of the Neo4j library that implements it. in the Browser.

The Python client offers the same capabilities through gds.graph.project()—using Python dictionaries instead of Cypher syntax.