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ORDER BY

The ORDER BY clause specifies the order of the rows in the output.

  • NGQL-extension: You must use a pipe (|) and an ORDER BY clause after YIELD clause.
  • OpenCypher style: no pipe is permitted. ORDER BY follows a RETURN clause.

There are two order options:

  • ASC: Ascending. ASC is the default order.
  • DESC: Descending.

An order option takes effect only when the expression before it is used for sorting the results.

nGQL-extension Syntax

<YIELD clause>
ORDER BY <expression> [ASC | DESC] [, <expression> [ASC | DESC] ...]

Examples

nebula> FETCH PROP ON player "player100", "player101", "player102", "player103" YIELD player.age AS age, player.name AS name \
| ORDER BY age ASC, name DESC;
+-------------+-----+---------------------+
| VertexID    | age | name                |
+-------------+-----+---------------------+
| "player103" | 32  | "Rudy Gay"          |
+-------------+-----+---------------------+
| "player102" | 33  | "LaMarcus Aldridge" |
+-------------+-----+---------------------+
| "player101" | 36  | "Tony Parker"       |
+-------------+-----+---------------------+
| "player100" | 42  | "Tim Duncan"        |
+-------------+-----+---------------------+

OpenCypher Syntax

<RETURN clause>
ORDER BY <expression> [ASC | DESC] [, <expression> [ASC | DESC] ...]

An order option takes effect only when the expression before it is used for sorting the results.

Examples

nebula> MATCH (v:player) RETURN v.name AS Name, v.age AS Age  ORDER BY Name DESC;
+-----------------+-----+
| Name            | Age |
+-----------------+-----+
| "Yao Ming"      | 38  |
+-----------------+-----+
| "Vince Carter"  | 42  |
+-----------------+-----+
| "Tracy McGrady" | 39  |
+-----------------+-----+
| "Tony Parker"   | 36  |
+-----------------+-----+
| "Tim Duncan"    | 42  |
+-----------------+-----+
...

nebula> MATCH (v:player) RETURN v.age AS Age, v.name AS Name  ORDER BY Age DESC, Name ASC
+-----+-------------------+
| Age | Name              |
+-----+-------------------+
| 47  | "Shaquille O'Neal" |
+-----+-------------------+
| 46  | "Grant Hill"      |
+-----+-------------------+
| 45  | "Jason Kidd"      |
+-----+-------------------+
| 45  | "Steve Nash"      |
+-----+-------------------+
...

In the preceding example, nGQL sorts the rows by Age first. If multiple people are of the same age, nGQL sorts them by Name.

Order by NULL values

nGQL lists NULL values at the end of the output for ascending sorting, and at the start for descending sorting.

nebula> MATCH (v:player{name:"Tim Duncan"}) --> (v2) \
        RETURN v2.name AS Name, v2.age AS Age  \
        ORDER BY Age;
+-----------------+----------+
| Name            | Age      |
+-----------------+----------+
| "Tony Parker"   | 36       |
+-----------------+----------+
| "Manu Ginobili" | 41       |
+-----------------+----------+
| "Spurs"         | __NULL__ |
+-----------------+----------+
Got 3 rows (time spent 3089/3719 us)

nebula> MATCH (v:player{name:"Tim Duncan"}) --> (v2) \
        RETURN v2.name AS Name, v2.age AS Age  \
        ORDER BY Age DESC;
+-----------------+----------+
| Name            | Age      |
+-----------------+----------+
| "Spurs"         | __NULL__ |
+-----------------+----------+
| "Manu Ginobili" | 41       |
+-----------------+----------+
| "Tony Parker"   | 36       |
+-----------------+----------+
Got 3 rows (time spent 2851/3360 us)
Last update: March 29, 2021
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