7.10. Multirelational (social) graphs

Graph

cypher-multirelationalsocialnetwork-graph.txt.svg

This example shows a multi-relational network between persons and things they like. A multi-relational graph is a graph with more than one kind of relationship between nodes.

Query

START me=node:node_auto_index(name = 'Joe')
MATCH me-[r1:FOLLOWS|LOVES]->other-[r2]->me
WHERE type(r1)=type(r2)
RETURN other.name, type(r1)

The query returns people that FOLLOWS or LOVES Joe back.

Result

other.nametype(r1)
3 rows
0 ms

"Sara"

"FOLLOWS"

"Maria"

"FOLLOWS"

"Maria"

"LOVES"