Install Memgraph Lab and connect to a database

Download and install Memgraph

Memgraph Lab needs a running Memgraph database instance.

If you installed Memgraph using Docker, and you want to be able to connect to it with Memgraph Lab desktop application, be sure that ports 7687, used for the instance connection (-p 7687:7687), and 7444, used for logs (-p 7444:7444) were exposed in the docker run ... command.

Download Memgraph Lab

Visit the Download Hub (opens in a new tab) and download Memgraph Lab desktop application.

Install Memgraph Lab

You can install Memgraph Lab by double clicking the downloaded installer and following the instructions.

If you downloaded Memgraph Lab on Linux, you can execute:

sudo dpkg -i MemgraphLab-x.x.x.deb

Set up connection

After you start Memgraph Lab, you should be presented with a login screen.

These are the default settings:

• Leave the Username and Password fields empty.
• The Host field can be either localhost, 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0, or change it appropriately.
• The Port field should be 7687. Every Memgraph instance is listening on this port by default.
• The Encrypted option should be disabled and display SSL Off by default.

Connect

Click on connect, and you should be presented with the following dashboard:

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Memgraph Lab and connected it to Memgraph. You are now ready to start building your graph and querying it.

Execute queries

Now, you can execute Cypher queries on Memgraph. Open the Query tab, located in the left sidebar, copy the following query and press the Run query button:

CREATE (u:User {name: "Alice"})-[:Likes]->(m:Software {name: "Memgraph"});

The query above will create 2 nodes in the database, one labeled "User" with name "Alice" and the other labeled "Software" with name "Memgraph". It will also create a relationship that "Alice" likes "Memgraph".

To find created nodes and relationships, execute the following query:

MATCH p=()-[]->() RETURN p;

You should get the following result: