FINISH

A query ending in FINISH — instead of RETURN — has no result but executes all its side effects. FINISH was introduced as part of Cypher^®'s GQL conformance.

The following read query successfully executes but has no results:

Query

MATCH (p:Person)
FINISH

The following query has no result but creates one node with the label Person:

Query

CREATE (p:Person)
FINISH

It is equivalent to the following query:

Query

CREATE (p:Person)