Deprecation of apoc.algo.cover()

[visakh_girish9]

Hello,

I've been reliant on apoc.algo.cover() to find all relationships between a set of nodes. Now I see a deprecation warning on it, saying it will be moved to GDS come Neo4J 4.1 : https://neo4j.com/docs/labs/apoc/current/algorithms/similarity/
Is there a new alternative to this function that performs similarly?

I know I can achieve similar results with cypher matches, but here performance is key, as my list of nodes can run into the thousands, and apoc.algo.cover() was very fast.

Thanks in advance.

[andrew_bowman · Accepted solution]

Hi Visakh,

As mentioned in the warning, this is not out yet, but is expected to come along with a GDS release after the Neo4j 4.1 release.

We will only remove cover() once these releases have happened and the alternative has demonstrated that it handles all its functionality.