Cypher
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.
Example
One statement writes the film, the other reads it back.
cypher
CREATE (:Person {name: 'Tom Hanks'})-[:ACTED_IN]->(:Movie {title: 'Toy Story'})cypher
MATCH path = (:Person {name: 'Tom Hanks'})-[:ACTED_IN]->(:Movie)
RETURN pathBoth are built around the same pattern, (:Person)-[:ACTED_IN]->(:Movie). CREATE stores it, and MATCH looks for it.
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