Is there a way to create bidirectional relationship in Neo4j using Cypher? I would like the relationship to be bidirectional rather than making two unidirectional relationships in both directions For eg:
(A)<-[FRIEND]->(B)
Rather than:
(A)-[FRIEND]->(B)
(A)<-[FRIEND]-(B)
Thanks in advance :)
No, there isn't. All relationships in neo4j have a direction, starting and ending at a given node.
There are a small number of workarounds.
Firstly, as you've suggested, we can either have two relationships, one going from A to B and the other from B to A.
Alternatively, when writing our MATCH query, we can specify to match patterns directionlessly, by using a query such as
MATCH (A)-[FRIEND]-(B) RETURN A, Bwhich will not care about whether A is friends with B or vice versa, and allows us to choose a direction arbitrarily when we create the relationship.
According to this article: Modeling Data in Neo4j: Bidirectional Relationships
The strictly better choice is to create a relationship in an arbitrary direction and not specify the direction when querying:
MATCH (neo)-[:PARTNER]-(partner)
The engine is capable of traversing the edge in either direction. Creating the anti-directional edge is unnecessary and only serves to waste space and traversal time.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24010932/neo4j-bidirectional-relationship