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Nodes, Labels, Relationships

Pick the right primitive for each piece of your domain.

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Three decisions, one schema

The three modelling decisions

  1. Node or property? A value becomes a node when it has independent identity, participates in relationships, or you need to query on it efficiently. Otherwise it stays as a property.
  2. Which label(s)? Labels group nodes into sets that share queries. A node can carry multiple labels (e.g. :Person:Employee).
  3. Direction + type for the relationship. The direction is a modelling choice; queries can ignore it with -[:TYPE]-, but it's always cheaper to keep it.

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