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I’m curious about naming conventions in neo4j.
I noticed in their examples that relationship names where capitalized, e.g.
left-[r:KNOWS]->right
Is that the convention? Is neo4j case sensitive in relationship names? Are there other naming conventions around index names and property names?
That is the convention. I personally use lower case relationship types, and yes, it is case-sensitive. With underscores.
Usually, people use underscores for index names as well, and they’re usually lower case, and also case-sensitive.
Also, something to remember: if you don’t specify direction while creating, the default is left<–right. Not intuitive for me, but now I just specify direction always.
For the properties, I think most people use JSON style conventions: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jsoncstyleguide.xml#Key_Names_in_JSON_Maps
I’ve also seen underscores for properties, so I guess it goes either way. Just be consistent!