How to index labels and properties

Through this guide, you will learn how to index labels and properties in a graph database.

Make sure you have a running Memgraph instance. If you're not sure how to run Memgraph, check out the Memgraph Quick start.

Next, do all necessary imports and create an instance of the database:

from gqlalchemy import Memgraph, Node, Field

db = Memgraph()

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You can also use this feature with Neo4j:

db = Neo4j(host="localhost", port="7687", username="neo4j", password="test")

After that, you can create two classes that represent:

class Animal(Node, index=True, db=db):
    name: str

class Human(Node):
    id: str = Field(index=True, db=db)

In the first class, Animal, the class argument index is set to True. That means that Memgraph will create a label index on the label Animal.

The other class, Human, has a Field() index argument set to True. Hence, Memgraph will create a label-property index on the property id of every node labeled Human.

Indexes will be created only if the database argument db is provided.

To learn more about indexing, check out the Under the hood documentation section.

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