Early Path Traversal Pruning

November 13, 2025
Length: 8 min

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Cypher runtime can prune a path traversal depending on a value of a currently evaluated node or relationship.

Recently, it has became possible to prune a path traversal depending on a stepwise evaluation of a value accumulated over a path.

The new feature is available since Neo4j 2025.8.0.

Speaker: Jan Zak

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