System requirements and configuration

System requirements

The sharded property database requires the same system requirements as Neo4j 2025.10 and later versions.

Configuration settings

To enable the property sharding in your cluster, you must also ensure that the default Cypher version is set to Cypher 25 by adding db.query.default_language=CYPHER_25 parameter to the neo4j.conf file on each server or by prefixing your Cypher queries with CYPHER_25. See Configure the Cypher default version and Cypher Manual → Select Cypher version.