Wednesday 1 September 2021

Neo4j: ORDER BY Clause

ORDER BY clause is used to sort the data in ascending or descending order.

 

For example, below statement return the person details by their salary in ascending order.

MATCH (p:Person) RETURN p.name, p.salary, p.age ORDER BY p.salary

 

Let’s see the same with an example.

 

Step 1: Open neo4j browser by hitting following url in browser.

http://localhost:7474/browser/

 


Step 2: Insert data by executing below query.

CREATE (p1:Person{name: "Rama Krishna", age: 32, city: "Bangalore", male: true, designation: "CEO", salary:540000000}),
(p2:Person{name: "Murali", age: 32, city: "Hyderabad", male: true, designation: "Vice President", salary: 43000000}),
(p3:Person{name: "Gopi", age: 34, city: "Chennai", male: true, designation: "Vice President", salary: 63067000}),
(p4:Person{name: "Kiran", age: 28, city: "Bangalore", male: true, designation: "Director", salary: 12000000}),
(p5:Person{name: "Siva", age: 45, city: "Hyderabad", male: true, designation: "Director", salary: 23000000}),
(p6:Person{name: "Kiran", age: 36, city: "Hyderabad", male: true, designation: "Manager", salary: 7800000}),
(p7:Person{name: "Ritweek", age: 23, city: "Bangalore", male: true, designation: "Manager", salary: 8100000}),
(p8:Person{name: "Sudheer", age: 24, city: "Chennai", male: true, designation: "Manager", salary: 7900000}),
(p9:Person{name: "Naveen", age: 37, city: "Bangalore", male: true, designation: "Employee", salary: 4500000}),
(p10:Person{name: "Sailaja", age: 31, city: "Hyderabad", female: true, designation: "Employee", salary: 5300000}),
(p11:Person{name: "Harika", age: 36, city: "Bangalore", female: true, designation: "Employee", salary: 3400000}),
(p12:Person{name: "Brahmam", age: 41, city: "Bangalore", male: true, designation: "Employee", salary: 4560000}),
(office1:Location{name: "Pluto", city: "Bangalore"}),
(office2:Location{name: "Mars", city: "Chennai"})
MERGE (p2)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2014, description: "reports to"}]->(p1)
MERGE (p3)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2016, description: "reports to"}]->(p1)
MERGE (p4)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 1997, description: "reports to"}]->(p2)
MERGE (p5)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 1997, description: "reports to"}]->(p3)
MERGE (p6)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2001, description: "reports to"}]->(p4)
MERGE (p7)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2009, description: "reports to"}]->(p4)
MERGE (p8)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 1998, description: "reports to"}]->(p5)
MERGE (p9)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2003, description: "reports to"}]->(p6)
MERGE (p10)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2004, description: "reports to"}]->(p6)
MERGE (p11)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2008, description: "reports to"}]->(p7)
MERGE (p12)-[:REPORT_TO{from: 2019, description: "reports to"}]->(p8)
MERGE (p2)-[:FRIEND_TO{from: 2014, description: "friend to"}]->(p1)
MERGE (p10)-[:FRIEND_TO{from: 2014, description: "friend to"}]->(p8)
MERGE (p7)-[:FRIEND_TO{from: 2014, description: "friend to"}]->(p9)
MERGE (p3)-[:RELATIVE_TO{from: 2014, description: "relative to"}]->(p4)
RETURN p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9, p10, p11, p12, office1, office2





Get the person details by their salary in ascending order.

MATCH (p:Person) RETURN p.name, p.salary, p.age ORDER BY p.salary

 

 


Get the person details by their salary in descending order.

MATCH (p:Person) RETURN p.name, p.salary, p.age ORDER BY p.salary DESC

 

Get the person details by their salary in descending order.

MATCH (p:Person) RETURN p.name, p.salary, p.age ORDER BY p.salary DESC




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