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2.3 · Lesson

Build your data model

Practice thinking in graphs by working with a data modelThe labels, relationship types and properties chosen to represent a domain. in the editor on the left.

You can explore a prebuilt use-case model — a good starting point if you want to see how a real-world graph is structured before building your own — or jump straight in and design your own from scratch. Either way, you have about five minutes here before you move on to CypherNeo4j's implementation of GQL, the ISO standard query language for graph databases. It is declarative: you describe the pattern to find, and the database decides how to find it..