Re: [Neo4j] CQL find by name

In my opinion, the current syntax reminds me of SQL, which is a good thing. All the newbies like me can easily wrap their head around the concepts, without much problem. Since you can't do an actual assignment in Cypher (please correct me if i am wrong), an equal sign clearly means comparison

Re: [Neo4j] CQL find by name

Actually they map to two different calls of the neo4j core API. The first one is a exact lookup for the value. The second one takes an arbitrary query string and executes it against an index, so it is much more powerful. (But also dependend on the index-provider) Main difference is that the

[Neo4j] CQL find by name

I have seen both this: START root=node:node_auto_index(name = 'FileRoot') and this used: START root=node:node_auto_index('name: FileRoot') Isn't the second one more appropriate since the first one could be mixed up with an assignment and the second one looks more like a key:value pair. More