Querying with Cypher and APOC
It’s time to talk about how to query Neo4j, which will be our prime interface for interacting with the graph database.
The query language used by Neo4j is called Cypher (no points here for spotting the common name origin in The Matrix). Cypher supports the full range of CRUD operations to manage graph structures within the database. This query language has been augmented with a stored procedure library known as APOC that provides hundreds of procedures and functions, adding a lot of new functionality.
Cypher
Cypher is a declarative graph query language that was developed in 2011 by Neo4j to query and manipulate graphs. It has subsequently been open-sourced, and the openCypher project is developing an open language ...
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