Getting Started with Cypher - Learning Neo4j - page 183

All we need to do to make this a proper Cypher statement is to wrap it in MATCH
and RETURN statements:
Match
(a:Person {name:"Rik")-[r:OWNS]->(b:Device {brand:"LIFX"})
return a,r,b;
This is just a simple example of how you would start using Cypher. More
complex examples can of course be found elsewhere in this topic. You can also
indthecompleteCypherRefCard(onlineversionat http://docs.neo4j.org/
refcard/2.1/ )includedintheinalpagesofthisbook.
The Cypher refcard
Cypher is the declarative query language for Neo4j, the world's leading
graph database.
The key principles and capabilities of Cypher are as follows:
• Cypher matches patterns of nodes and relationship in the graph,
to extract information or modify the data
• Cypherhastheconceptofidentiiers,whichdenotenamed,
bound elements and parameters
• Cypher can create, update, and remove nodes, relationships, labels,
and properties
• Cypher manages indexes and constraints
You can try Cypher snippets live in the Neo4j Console at console.neo4j.org
or read the full Cypher documentation at docs.neo4j.org . For live graph
models using Cypher, check out the graph gists at gist.neo4j.org as well.
{value} denotes either literals (for ad hoc Cypher queries)
or parameters, which is the best practice for applications.
Neo4j properties can be strings, numbers, Booleans, or
arrays. Cypher also supports maps and collections.
For your convenience, we included the online version of the Cypher refcard
( http://docs.neo4j.org/refcard/2.1.1/ ) in unaltered form in this topic. This
refcard is published online under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license, details of which can be found at http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ .