Space Race/MATCH Tutorial

Use MATCH and RETURN to return nodes. Use : to specify what label(s) you wish the returned nodes to have. Not specifying any label will return ALL nodes

Show Institutions instead of Astronauts

MATCH(n:Astronaut) RETURN n;

MATCH(n:Institution) RETURN n; 

Use WHERE to specify conditions and the . operator to access individual properties of a node.

The item in [] represents a relationship between nodes, in this case the relationship possessing the label "BORN_IN"

Show the Surnames of Astronauts born in Russia, and the full name of Russia rather than the USA. Hint: Use the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code in all caps

MATCH(n:Astronaut)-[:BORN_IN]->(c:Country) WHERE c.abbrev ='USA' RETURN n.surname, c.name;

MATCH(n:Astronaut)-[:BORN_IN]->(c:Country) WHERE c.abbrev= 'RU' RETURN n.surname, c.name;

When simply matching based on properties of a node, an alternative to using WHERE is to use the {} with the format {property:value}

Return Neil Armstrong's date of birth

MATCH(n:Astronaut{surname:"Gagarin",first_name:"Yuri"})RETURN n.dob;

MATCH(n:Astronaut{surname:"Armstrong",first_name:"Neil"})RETURN n.dob;