This Week in Neo4j: GraphRAG, Graph Database, MCP, Text2Cypher and more

Senior Developer Marketing Manager

July 19, 2025

3 min read

Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your fix for news from the world of graph databases!

Among all the hotness around MCP and GraphRAG (also featured in this edition, of course), we haven’t forgotten the basics, and I am pleased about our new Intro to Graph Database Video Series. The first four episodes were just published and you can watch them now!

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Happy Graphing,

Alexander Erdl

COMING UP!

Livestream: Neo4j Live: Essential GraphRAG on July 22 & Operationalizing GraphRAG: Lettria’s Scalable Architecture with Neo4j and Qdrant on July 23
Conferences: Find us at Snowflake World Tour, Sydney on August 14
Meetup: Meet us in Seattle, US on July 29, Sydney, AU on July 30 & Sydney, AU on July 31
All Neo4j Events: Webinars and More
GraphSummit Series: Transform Your Enterprise with Graph and GenAI – Next Stop: Sydney on July 24

FEATURED COMMUNITY MEMBER: Alex Chantavy

Alex has been an avid Neo4j user for over 10 years. He is the co-founder and CEO of SubImage, a cloud security startup backed by Y Combinator.

Connect with him on LinkedIn.

Alex is a Featured NODES 2025 Speaker. His session is titled “From Side Project to Startup: Graph Lessons From the Cartography Journey”. Cartography started as a internal tool at Lyft and in this talk, he will share the story of its evolution to becoming part of the CNCF Sandbox and eventually the foundation for his startup.

GRAPHRAG: GraphRAG in Action: A Simple Agent for Know-Your-Customer Investigations

In this tutorial, Ed Sandoval extracts targeted information from contracts with LLM prompts. He then structures that information into a knowledge graph and pairs it with Cypher and vector search. The system enables precise, domain-aware retrieval. A four-stage pipeline—from extraction to Q&A showcases how a GraphRAG architecture can handle complex legal queries smartly.

GRAPHDATABASE: Intro to Graph Database Video Series

In four short videos, Nyah Macklin and Martin O’Hanlon break down the fundamentals of graph theory, the property graph model and how Neo4j stores and connects data using nodes and relationships. They go on to data importing (no code required) and how to use Neo4j in your (Python) app.

Watch all four episodes in our playlist.

MCP: Developing with Neo4j MCP Tools

Our team has published a brand new course on GraphAcademy that teaches you how to use Neo4j’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools to build AI-enhanced graph applications. In no time you are going to set up and connect MCP servers in VS Code, use tools like get-neo4j-schema and build a GraphRAG-style tool that interfaces with Neo4j databases.

On the Neo4j Community, July is full of events around MCP and GraphRAG this month – like the MCP Beginners Workshop on July 29!

Text2Cypher: Text2Cypher Across Languages: Evaluating Foundational Models Beyond English

In this post, Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy and Will Tai evaluate how foundational LLMs perform on the Text2Cypher task across English, Spanish and Turkish. They release a multilingual test set by translating natural-language questions while preserving a shared set of Cypher queries. They assess models using textual (ROUGE‑L) and execution-based (Exact Match) metrics.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING

GraphAcademy: Learn to make your graph more performant with Cypher constraints and indexes in “Cypher Indexes and Constraints“
Get to Know Graph: Level up your graph skills with webinars packed with practical insights to help you build powerful apps
Learn on Your Schedule: Go deeper into graph technology on Neo4j’s On-Demand webinar library
New Webinar: Build AI Agents with Intelligent MCP Workflows – AMER, EMEA, Asia Pacific
Workshops: Next Neo4j Fundamentals Virtual Workshop on August 19

POST OF THE WEEK: Nick + Wright

So I'm setting up a #Pokémon Neo4j Graph Database, and my daughter helped me realize a unbelievable fact about Pokémon Types.

Until Gen 9, the Normal, Poison, and Ice types were COMPLETELY ISOLATED. Not a SINGLE Pokémon crossed those types until Shroodle & Grafaiai's Poison/Normal Typing.

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— Nick † Wright (@nickwrightdata.ntw.app) 7. Juli 2025 um 22:54

Please share it if you like it!