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Full-text Indexes in Neo4j

Full-text indexes are useful in applications that must parse propertyA named value stored on a node or a relationship. values for evaluating whether the property satisfies the criteria. Full-text indexes rely on Apache Lucene for their implementation which makes their parsing capabilities very powerful.

With a full-text index, you can use Lucene's full-text query language to express how the values will be matched in a query. A full-text index can be defined for multiple labelsA tag on a node that groups it with other nodes of the same kind. A node can carry more than one. and/or properties, or for multiple relationshipA named, directed connection between two nodes. Every relationship has a type, a start node and an end node. types and/or properties.