Abstract and Virtual Entity

Creating Entities

Insert a new entity and name it as “Base” and add new properties (Uid and Description).

Name	Is Key	Optional	Type	Index
Uid	True	False	string	Unique
Description	False	True	string	None

Insert New Entity

Check Static Data

Remove the Uid property in the "Person", "Movie" and "Genre" entity.

Remove property

In the properties pane, set the base entity of "Person", "Movie" and "Genre" as "Base".

Set Base Entity

You can now see in the properties pane that "Person", "Movie" and "Genre" inherit the properties from "Base" entity.

Inherits Properties

You have successfully created an Abstract entity type and used it as a base entity of the other entities.

If you don't want to store the "Base" label on the graph database, you can check the "Virtual" to make it as Virtual entity type.

Inherits Properties

Now, you can see that the "Base" entity has changed its color to white displaying as Virtual entity.

Inherits Properties

You have successfully created a Virtual entity type and have used it as a base entity.

Let's take a look at how to create relationships between entities.