The Ultimate Guide to Managing Results in Neo4j Using Cypher

When working with data in Neo4j, your queries can return a large number of results. To make the results more meaningful and easier to manage, Cypher provides several powerful features:

1. Ordering results to sort data
2. Limiting results to show only a specified number of records
3. Skipping results to control pagination
4. Eliminating duplicate results to ensure unique records

This article will explain these features in detail with examples.

Here is a snapshot of how diff. nodes would look like in the database.

Ordering Results

Sorting data helps you organize query results based on specific properties. You can sort results:

• Ascending (default)
• Descending (using the DESC keyword)

Data Types and Ordering:

• Strings: Ordered by their text values, meaning lexicographically. For example, “apple” comes before “banana”.
• Booleans: Boolean true comes before false when ordered, as true is typically treated as 1 and false as 0 in numeric contexts.
• Numeric Data: Numeric data (including date and datetime properties) are ordered by their numeric value. Earlier dates or smaller numeric values are considered “less than” later…