Early Path Traversal Pruning

Session Track: App Dev

Session Time: 04:45 pm - 05:00 pm November 6

Session description

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

Software Engineer, IBM Manta Data Lineage

Jan is a Software Engineer, specializing in high-performance graph and geospatial applications. He is an author of popular open-source libraries and a frequent contributor. Currently he is in charge of Neo4j adoption in IBM Manta Data Lineage.