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Graph Data Processing with Cypher
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Graph Data Processing with Cypher

by Ravindranatha Anthapu
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
332 pages
6h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Components of Cypher

Cypher is a declarative query language that makes it easy to write expressive and efficient queries to traverse, update, and administer a graph database. It provides a powerful way to express even complex graph traversals more simply so that you can concentrate on the domain aspects of your query instead of worrying about syntax.

Cypher expands upon a variety of established practices for querying. For example, the WHERE, ORDER BY, and CASE keywords are inspired by SQL syntax. Some of the list semantics are borrowed from Haskell and Python.

This chapter introduces the Cypher syntax with some examples. We will review the important aspects of the Cypher syntax and semantics in building graph traversal queries. We will discuss ...

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