Introduction

Neo4j databases can be accessed through Cypher queries. The range of possibilities with the Cypher query language is huge and this manual is not intended to be an exhaustive reference; rather, we will explain how data schemas help write Cypher queries, what the data schema used by mako looks like and show several queries that can be used to query a database generated by mako.

For a quick introduction on Cypher syntax, please take a look at Neo4j’s Introduction to Cypher. Neo4j also has written an exhaustive Cypher manual which you can find here, in the developer guides.