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PROFILE clause

The PROFILE clause can be used to profile the execution of a query and get a detailed report on how the query's plan behaved. To get a query plan, use the EXPLAIN clause.

For every logical operator the following info is provided:

  • OPERATOR — the name of the operator, just like in the output of an EXPLAIN query.

  • ACTUAL HITS — the number of times a particular logical operator was pulled from.

  • RELATIVE TIME — the amount of time that was spent processing a particular logical operator, relative to the execution of the whole plan.

  • ABSOLUTE TIME — the amount of time that was spent processing a particular logical operator.

A simple example to illustrate the output:

PROFILE MATCH (n :Node)-[:Edge]-(m :Node) WHERE n.prop = 42 RETURN *;
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| OPERATOR      | ACTUAL HITS   | RELATIVE TIME | ABSOLUTE TIME |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
| * Produce     | 1             |   7.134628 %  |   0.003949 ms |
| * Filter      | 1             |  12.734765 %  |   0.007049 ms |
| * Expand      | 1             |   5.181460 %  |   0.002868 ms |
| * ScanAll     | 1             |   3.325061 %  |   0.001840 ms |
| * ScanAll     | 1             |  71.061241 %  |   0.039334 ms |
| * Once        | 2             |   0.562844 %  |   0.000312 ms |
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+