Property values

This describes how both nodes and relationships can have properties.

Properties are named values where the name is a string. Property values can be either a primitive or an array of one primitive type. For example String, int, and int[] values are valid for properties.

NULL is not a valid property value. Setting a property to NULL is equivalent to deleting the property.

Table 1. Property value types
Type	Description
`boolean`
`byte`	8-bit integer.
`short`	16-bit integer.
`int`	32-bit integer.
`long`	64-bit integer.
`float`	32-bit IEEE 754 floating-point number.
`double`	64-bit IEEE 754 floating-point number.
`char`	16-bit unsigned integers representing Unicode characters.
`String`	Sequence of Unicode characters.
`org.neo4j.graphdb.spatial.Point`	A 2D or 3D point object in a given coordinate system.
`java.time.LocalDate`	An instant capturing of the date, but not the time and timezone.
`java.time.OffsetTime`	An instant capturing of the time of day and the timezone offset, but not the date.
`java.time.LocalTime`	An instant capturing of the time of day, but not the date and timezone.
`java.time.ZonedDateTime`	An instant capturing of the date, time, and timezone.
`java.time.LocalDateTime`	An instant capturing of the date and time, but not the timezone.
`java.time.temporal.TemporalAmount`	A temporal amount. This captures the difference in time between two instants.

For further details on float/double values, see Java Language Specification.

Note that there are two cases where more than one Java type is mapped to a single Cypher type. When this happens, type information is lost. If these objects are returned from procedures, the original types cannot be recreated:

A Cypher Duration is created when either java.time.Duration or java.time.Period is provided. If Duration is returned, only the common interface java.time.temporal.TemporalAmount remains.
A Cypher DateTime is created when java.time.OffsetDateTime is provided. If DateTime is returned, it is converted into java.time.ZonedDateTime.

Strings that contain special characters can have inconsistent or non-deterministic ordering in Neo4j. For details, see Cypher Manual → Sorting of special characters.