Database functions

This feature was introduced in Neo4j 5.12.

db.nameFromElementId()

Returns the name of a database to which the element id belongs. The name of the database can only be returned if the provided element id belongs to a standard database in the DBMS.

Example 1. db.nameFromElementId()
Query
WITH "2:efc7577d-022a-107c-a736-dbcdfc189c03:0" AS eid
RETURN db.nameFromElementId(eid) AS name

Returns the name of the database which the element id belongs to.

Table 1. Result
name

"neo4j"

Rows: 1