Cypher coverage

RedisGraph implements a subset of the Cypher language, which is growing as development continues. This document is based on the Cypher Query Language Reference (version 9), available at OpenCypher Resources.

Patterns

Patterns are fully supported.

Types

Structural types

  • Nodes
  • Relationships
  • Path variables (alternating sequence of nodes and relationships).

Composite types

  • Lists

  • Maps

    Unsupported:

  • Temporal types (Date, DateTime, LocalDateTime, Time, LocalTime, Duration)

Literal types

  • Numeric types (64-bit doubles and 64-bit signed integer representations)

  • String literals

  • Booleans

    Unsupported:

  • Hexadecimal and octal numerics

Other

NULL is supported as a representation of a missing or undefined value.

Comparability, equality, orderability, and equivalence

This is a somewhat nebulous area in Cypher itself, with a lot of edge cases. Broadly speaking, RedisGraph behaves as expected with string and numeric values. There are likely some behaviors involving the numerics NaN, -inf, inf, and possibly -0.0 that deviate from the Cypher standard. We do not support any of these properties at the type level, meaning nodes and relationships are not internally comparable.

Clauses

Reading Clauses

  • MATCH
  • OPTIONAL MATCH

Projecting Clauses

  • RETURN
  • AS
  • WITH
  • UNWIND

Reading sub-clauses

  • WHERE
  • ORDER BY
  • SKIP
  • LIMIT

Writing Clauses

  • CREATE

  • DELETE

    • We actually implement DETACH DELETE, the distinction being that relationships invalidated by node deletions are automatically deleted.

  • SET

    Unsupported:

  • REMOVE (to modify properties)
    • Properties can be deleted with SET [prop] = NULL.

Reading/Writing Clauses

Set Operations

  • UNION
  • UNION ALL

Functions

The currently-supported functions are listed in the Functions documentation.

Unsupported:

  • Temporal arithmetic functions
  • User-defined functions

Operators

Mathematical operators

The currently-supported functions are listed in the mathematical operators documentation.

String operators

  • String operators (STARTS WITH, ENDS WITH, CONTAINS) are supported.

    Unsupported:

  • Regex operator

Boolean operators

  • AND
  • OR
  • NOT
  • XOR

Parameters

Parameters may be specified to allow for more flexible query construction:

CYPHER name_param = "Niccolò Machiavelli" birth_year_param = 1469 MATCH (p:Person {name: $name_param, birth_year: $birth_year_param}) RETURN p

The example above shows the syntax used by redis-cli to set parameters, but each RedisGraph client introduces a language-appropriate method for setting parameters, and is described in their documentation.

Non-Cypher queries

  • RedisGraph provides the GRAPH.EXPLAIN command to print the execution plan of a provided query.
  • GRAPH.DELETE will remove a graph and all Redis keys associated with it.
  • We do not currently provide support for queries that retrieve schemas, though the LABELS and TYPE scalar functions may be used to get a graph overview.
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