Intro to Cypher

Cypher is Neo4j's graph query language and understanding it well allows you to unleash the true power of Neo4j.

I have packaged the cypher-shell for the MacOS and Linux in this repo with some simple convenience scripts to allow commandline exploration of Cypher.

...there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it, though. Your brain does the translating. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. Hey uh, you want a drink?

-Cypher (The Matrix)

Configure

1. Download Cypher Shell
   1. (Recommended) Run the get_cypher.sh script to download and unzip cypher-shell
   2. (Manual) Download cypher-shell and unzip into this directory.
2. Rename env file to .env and edit the variable to match your environment

Commands

./get_cypher.sh
mv  env .env

Usage

./cysh : start cypher-shell
./cql scripts/common/clear_graph.cql : run cypher script to clear graph

Tutorials

Basic

The basic tutorial uses a combination of Neo4j online cypher tutorials.

./cql scripts/basic/load_graph.cql : load basic tutorial graph