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      • apoc
        • apoc.case
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      • apoc.agg
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      • apoc.algo
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      • apoc.atomic
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        • apoc.coll.different
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        • apoc.coll.fill
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        • apoc.coll.occurrences
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        • apoc.coll.partition
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        • apoc.coll.remove
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        • apoc.coll.sortNodes
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        • apoc.coll.stdev
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        • apoc.coll.sum
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        • apoc.coll.toSet
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      • apoc.convert
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        • apoc.convert.toJson
        • apoc.convert.toList
        • apoc.convert.toMap
        • apoc.convert.toNode
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        • apoc.convert.toSet
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      • apoc.create
        • apoc.create.addLabels
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        • apoc.create.relationship
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        • apoc.create.setProperties
        • apoc.create.setProperty
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        • apoc.create.uuids
        • apoc.create.vNode
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        • apoc.create.vRelationship
        • apoc.create.virtualPath
        • apoc.create.uuid
        • apoc.create.vNode
        • apoc.create.vRelationship
        • apoc.create.virtual.fromNode
      • apoc.cypher
        • apoc.cypher.doIt
        • apoc.cypher.run
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      • apoc.data
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      • apoc.date
        • apoc.date.add
        • apoc.date.convert
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        • apoc.date.currentTimestamp
        • apoc.date.field
        • apoc.date.fields
        • apoc.date.format
        • apoc.date.fromISO8601
        • apoc.date.parse
        • apoc.date.systemTimezone
        • apoc.date.toISO8601
        • apoc.date.toYears
      • apoc.diff
        • apoc.diff.nodes
      • apoc.do
        • apoc.do.case
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      • apoc.example
        • apoc.example.movies
      • apoc.export
        • apoc.export.csv.all
        • apoc.export.csv.data
        • apoc.export.csv.graph
        • apoc.export.csv.query
        • apoc.export.cypher.all
        • apoc.export.cypher.data
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        • apoc.export.cypher.query
        • apoc.export.cypher.schema
        • apoc.export.graphml.all
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        • apoc.export.graphml.graph
        • apoc.export.graphml.query
        • apoc.export.json.all
        • apoc.export.json.data
        • apoc.export.json.graph
        • apoc.export.json.query
      • apoc.graph
        • apoc.graph.from
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        • apoc.graph.fromPaths
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      • apoc.hashing
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        • apoc.hashing.fingerprinting
      • apoc.import
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        • apoc.import.json
        • apoc.import.xml
      • apoc.json
        • apoc.json.path
      • apoc.label
        • apoc.label.exists
      • apoc.load
        • apoc.load.json
        • apoc.load.jsonArray
        • apoc.load.jsonParams
        • apoc.load.xml
      • apoc.lock
        • apoc.lock.all
        • apoc.lock.nodes
        • apoc.lock.read.nodes
        • apoc.lock.read.rels
        • apoc.lock.rels
      • apoc.log
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      • apoc.map
        • apoc.map.clean
        • apoc.map.flatten
        • apoc.map.fromLists
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        • apoc.map.fromPairs
        • apoc.map.fromValues
        • apoc.map.get
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        • apoc.map.merge
        • apoc.map.mergeList
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        • apoc.map.removeKey
        • apoc.map.removeKeys
        • apoc.map.setEntry
        • apoc.map.setKey
        • apoc.map.setLists
        • apoc.map.setPairs
        • apoc.map.setValues
        • apoc.map.sortedProperties
        • apoc.map.submap
        • apoc.map.unflatten
        • apoc.map.updateTree
        • apoc.map.values
      • apoc.math
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        • apoc.math.maxInt
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        • apoc.math.minInt
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        • apoc.math.sech
        • apoc.math.sigmoid
        • apoc.math.sigmoidPrime
        • apoc.math.sinh
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      • apoc.merge
        • apoc.merge.node
        • apoc.merge.node.eager
        • apoc.merge.nodeWithStats
        • apoc.merge.nodeWithStats.eager
        • apoc.merge.relationship
        • apoc.merge.relationship.eager
        • apoc.merge.relationshipWithStats
        • apoc.merge.relationshipWithStats.eager
      • apoc.meta
        • apoc.meta.data
        • apoc.meta.data.of
        • apoc.meta.graph
        • apoc.meta.graph.of
        • apoc.meta.graphSample
        • apoc.meta.nodeTypeProperties
        • apoc.meta.relTypeProperties
        • apoc.meta.schema
        • apoc.meta.stats
        • apoc.meta.subGraph
        • apoc.meta.cypher.isType
        • apoc.meta.cypher.type
        • apoc.meta.cypher.types
        • apoc.meta.nodes.count
      • apoc.neighbors
        • apoc.neighbors.athop
        • apoc.neighbors.athop.count
        • apoc.neighbors.byhop
        • apoc.neighbors.byhop.count
        • apoc.neighbors.tohop
        • apoc.neighbors.tohop.count
      • apoc.node
        • apoc.node.degree
        • apoc.node.degree.in
        • apoc.node.degree.out
        • apoc.node.id
        • apoc.node.labels
        • apoc.node.relationship.exists
        • apoc.node.relationship.types
        • apoc.node.relationships.exist
      • apoc.nodes
        • apoc.nodes.collapse
        • apoc.nodes.cycles
        • apoc.nodes.delete
        • apoc.nodes.get
        • apoc.nodes.group
        • apoc.nodes.link
        • apoc.nodes.rels
        • apoc.nodes.connected
        • apoc.nodes.isDense
        • apoc.nodes.relationship.types
        • apoc.nodes.relationships.exist
      • apoc.number
        • apoc.number.arabicToRoman
        • apoc.number.exact.add
        • apoc.number.exact.div
        • apoc.number.exact.mul
        • apoc.number.exact.sub
        • apoc.number.exact.toExact
        • apoc.number.exact.toFloat
        • apoc.number.exact.toInteger
        • apoc.number.format
        • apoc.number.parseFloat
        • apoc.number.parseInt
        • apoc.number.romanToArabic
      • apoc.path
        • apoc.path.expand
        • apoc.path.expandConfig
        • apoc.path.spanningTree
        • apoc.path.subgraphAll
        • apoc.path.subgraphNodes
        • apoc.path.combine
        • apoc.path.create
        • apoc.path.elements
        • apoc.path.slice
      • apoc.periodic
        • apoc.periodic.cancel
        • apoc.periodic.commit
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        • apoc.periodic.iterate
        • apoc.periodic.list
        • apoc.periodic.repeat
        • apoc.periodic.submit
        • apoc.periodic.truncate
      • apoc.refactor
        • apoc.refactor.categorize
        • apoc.refactor.cloneNodes
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        • apoc.refactor.collapseNode
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        • apoc.refactor.extractNode
        • apoc.refactor.from
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        • apoc.refactor.mergeNodes
        • apoc.refactor.mergeRelationships
        • apoc.refactor.normalizeAsBoolean
        • apoc.refactor.rename.label
        • apoc.refactor.rename.nodeProperty
        • apoc.refactor.rename.type
        • apoc.refactor.rename.typeProperty
        • apoc.refactor.setType
        • apoc.refactor.to
      • apoc.rel
        • apoc.rel.endNode
        • apoc.rel.id
        • apoc.rel.startNode
        • apoc.rel.type
      • apoc.schema
        • apoc.schema.assert
        • apoc.schema.nodes
        • apoc.schema.properties.distinct
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        • apoc.schema.relationships
        • apoc.schema.node.constraintExists
        • apoc.schema.node.indexExists
        • apoc.schema.relationship.constraintExists
        • apoc.schema.relationship.indexExists
      • apoc.scoring
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      • apoc.search
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        • apoc.search.node
        • apoc.search.nodeAll
        • apoc.search.nodeAllReduced
        • apoc.search.nodeReduced
      • apoc.spatial
        • apoc.spatial.geocode
        • apoc.spatial.geocodeOnce
        • apoc.spatial.reverseGeocode
        • apoc.spatial.sortByDistance
      • apoc.stats
        • apoc.stats.degrees
      • apoc.temporal
        • apoc.temporal.format
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        • apoc.temporal.toZonedTemporal
      • apoc.text
        • apoc.text.phoneticDelta
        • apoc.text.base64Decode
        • apoc.text.base64Encode
        • apoc.text.base64UrlDecode
        • apoc.text.base64UrlEncode
        • apoc.text.byteCount
        • apoc.text.bytes
        • apoc.text.camelCase
        • apoc.text.capitalize
        • apoc.text.capitalizeAll
        • apoc.text.charAt
        • apoc.text.clean
        • apoc.text.code
        • apoc.text.compareCleaned
        • apoc.text.decapitalize
        • apoc.text.decapitalizeAll
        • apoc.text.distance
        • apoc.text.doubleMetaphone
        • apoc.text.format
        • apoc.text.fuzzyMatch
        • apoc.text.hammingDistance
        • apoc.text.hexCharAt
        • apoc.text.hexValue
        • apoc.text.indexOf
        • apoc.text.indexesOf
        • apoc.text.jaroWinklerDistance
        • apoc.text.join
        • apoc.text.levenshteinDistance
        • apoc.text.levenshteinSimilarity
        • apoc.text.lpad
        • apoc.text.phonetic
        • apoc.text.random
        • apoc.text.regexGroups
        • apoc.text.regreplace
        • apoc.text.repeat
        • apoc.text.replace
        • apoc.text.rpad
        • apoc.text.slug
        • apoc.text.snakeCase
        • apoc.text.sorensenDiceSimilarity
        • apoc.text.split
        • apoc.text.swapCase
        • apoc.text.toCypher
        • apoc.text.toUpperCase
        • apoc.text.upperCamelCase
        • apoc.text.urldecode
        • apoc.text.urlencode
      • apoc.trigger
        • apoc.trigger.add
        • apoc.trigger.drop
        • apoc.trigger.dropAll
        • apoc.trigger.install
        • apoc.trigger.list
        • apoc.trigger.pause
        • apoc.trigger.remove
        • apoc.trigger.removeAll
        • apoc.trigger.resume
        • apoc.trigger.show
        • apoc.trigger.start
        • apoc.trigger.stop
      • apoc.util
        • apoc.util.sleep
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        • apoc.util.compress
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        • apoc.util.validatePredicate
      • apoc.xml
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    • Graph Refactoring
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Graph updates

The APOC library adds functionality for updating a graph. For more information on how to use these procedures, see:

  • Atomic property updates

  • Creating data

  • Deleting data

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  • Periodic execution

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