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Asked: 2026-06-03T05:14:37+00:00

I’m developing a small affiliate structure to understand the concept of graph databases better,

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I’m developing a small affiliate structure to understand the concept of graph databases better, as well learn Neo4J and see what it can offer me. I’ve been with RDBMS for years now and Cypher is pretty rough. I’m trying to build a very simple affiliate system:

Affiliate Joe has referred Mary, Bob and Mark. So, i create all their nodes and create the “referred” relationship. Now Mary refers Julie, Jessica and Joan. Bob refers Billy and Baxter. Mark refers Michael and Marx. And their referrals keep referring people.

For each referral that one of Joe’s original referrals, Joe earns a “generation”. His first generation is Mary, Bob and Mark. His second generation is Julie, Jessica, Joan, Billy, Baxter, Michael and Marx.

Now, with a Cypher query, how can i discover his generations and, of course, discover their number? Their place in the tree? How can i know who is from his 3rd or 4th generation, and who they are?

My mind is twisting here, hope you guys can help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Vinny,
    look at http://tinyurl.com/7vryzwz, is this what you are lookad for, basically 

    START referrer=node(1) 
MATCH path=referrer-[:referred*1..]->refferee 
RETURN referrer,refferee, length(path) as generation 
ORDER BY length(path) asc
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