Create Relationship

CREATE statement is used to create relationship between nodes. These relationships define direction, type and form patterns of the data.

It defines mainly three things:

• Creating Relationships
• Creating Relationships between existing nodes
• Creating relationships with label and properties

Creating Relationship

While creating a relationship, relationship should be specified within square braces "[ ]", depending on the direction of the relationship it is placed between hyphen " - " and arrow " ? " as shown in the following syntax.

Syntax:

Example

Let's create two nodes "Raul" and "It" first and then specify the relationship between them.

Now create a relationship "PLAYER_OF between these two nodes as ?

Output:

You can also see it in tabular or text form:

You can also download (export) the graph in which format you want to save it. Click on the download button, see the example:

Create a Relationship between existing Nodes

MATCH statement is used to create relationship between the existing Nodes.

Syntax:

Example

Create a relationship using MATCH statement.

Output:

Create a Relationship with Label and Properties

CREATE statement is used to create a relationship with label and properties.

Syntax:

Example:

Let's take an example to create a relationship for a node with label and properties using the CREATE statement.

First create a node "Kohli", having multiple labels

Then create some properties with the same node:

Create another node "Ind":

Now create a relationship with label and properties:

Creating a complete path

In Neo4j, CREATE statement is used to create a path. A path is formed using continuous relationship.

Syntax:

Example:

First create a node3 name "Champions_Trophy" to do further operations.

Now execute the following code: