From Cypher to Native Projection
1.3 · Lesson

From Cypher to Native Projection

You may have been using Full 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. Full definition for projection (opens in a new tab)An in-memory copy of part of your database that graph algorithms run against. You choose which nodes and relationships it holds. when working with Go to glossary for graph data science (opens in a new tab)Analysing 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.