Indexes

CREATE INDEX for O(1) property lookups. Without an index, MATCH scans every node.

CREATE INDEX ON :Person(name)

Drop an index#

DROP INDEX ON :Person(name)

List indexes#

CALL db.indexes()

Or in the REPL:

:indexes

Full-text indexes#

Full-text indexes power BM25 keyword retrieval. List them with CALL db.fulltextIndexes(). After a bulk load that bypassed the incremental indexer, rebuild one explicitly:

REFRESH FULLTEXT INDEX article_body

REFRESH FULLTEXT INDEX <name> re-tokenizes the indexed property across all matching nodes — use it when documents were ingested out-of-band and the index needs to catch up.

See Also#

• Constraints — UNIQUE constraints