Graphical User Interface

A convenient Graphical User Interface, with the possibility of building a graph database using "drag & drop" feature, is essential in bridging the gap between the usability of graph databases and the inability of several domain experts to utilise the features of a graph database through the query languages available. There are three possible ways in which these interfaces exist

• Built-in tools of the parent database system
• A third-party application, tool or plugin which
  • Can not connect to the User Interface directly
  • Can be directly interfaced to any Graph Database System to interact with stored data

We provide a thorough overview of the Graphical User Interface in the following table

Graph Database Systems	Built-in GUI	Drag & Drop
AllegroGraph	AllegroGraph WebView Gruff	✔️
Amazon Neptune	Neptune Workbench	-
ArangoDB	Graph Viewer	-
Hyper Graph DB	-	-
InfiniteGraph	InfiniteGraph Visualizer	-
OrientDB	OrientDB Studio	✔️
TigerGraph	TigerGraph Studio	✔️
Neo4j	several	✔️

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Graphical User Interfaces in Neo4j

• Embeddable Tools with built-in Neo4j connections
  1. Neovis.js
  2. Popoto.js
• Embeddable Libraries without direct Neo4j connection
  1. D3.js
  2. Vis.js
  3. Sigma.js
  4. Vivagraph.js
  5. Cytoscape.js
• Standalone Product Tools
  1. Bloom by Neo4j
  2. GraphXR by Kineviz
  3. yFiles by yWorks
  4. Linkurious Enterprise by Linkurious
  5. Graphistry by Graphistry
  6. Graphlytic by Graphlytic

source: "Graph Visualization Tools", neo4j, https://neo4j.com/developer/tools-graph-visualization/

The abundance of tools & libraries available in Neo4j, both built-in & external based on JavaScript, gives it quite the upper-hand in terms of flexibility, ease-of-visualization and adaptability. While most of the GUI tools does provide basic support of visualising queries and hover & move around the resulting nodes & edges, some rare ones do provide the extensive functionality of building a whole database from scratch using just the drag & drop feature, examples being

TigerGraph Studio

Built-in GUI for TigerGraph Database

Arrow Tool

Tool which can form nodes and edges using drag & drop builder and can export corresponding cypher code. http://www.apcjones.com/arrows/

Cypher Code :

CREATE 
  (`1` :`Water Vessel` {name:"Titanic"}) ,
  (`2` :Passenger {name:'Jack Dawson'}) ,
  (`3` :Passenger {name:'Rose DeWitt Bukater'}) ,
  (`4` :Passenger ) ,
  (`1`)-[:`Carried` ]->(`2`),
  (`1`)-[:`Carried` ]->(`3`),
  (`2`)-[:``Made Sketch Of`` ]->(`4`)

Arrows

https://arrows.app/

Cypher Code :

MATCH path0 = (:`species: Homo Sapien`)-[:affected by]->(:`type: flu`)-[:is spread by]->(:`species: Stupid Sapiens`)
RETURN path0