NoSuchMethodError: void org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.Read.relationshipProperties(...)

[JohT]

Describe the bug

When I try to create a new projection with gds.graph.project using Cypher with graph-data-science version 2.16.0, I get the following error message:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.Read.relationshipProperties(long, org.neo4j.storageengine.api.Reference, org.neo4j.storageengine.api.PropertySelection, org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.PropertyCursor)

Details

Query

  CALL gds.graph.project(
    $dependencies_projection,
    $dependencies_projection_node, 
      'DEPENDS_ON', {
        relationshipProperties: [$dependencies_projection_weight_property],
        nodeProperties: ['incomingDependencies', 'outgoingDependencies', 'testMarkerInteger']
      }
  )
 YIELD graphName, nodeCount, relationshipCount
RETURN graphName, nodeCount, relationshipCount

Query Response

{
  "code": "Neo.ClientError.Procedure.ProcedureCallFailed",
  "message": "Failed to invoke procedure `gds.graph.project`: Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.Read.relationshipProperties(long, org.neo4j.storageengine.api.Reference, org.neo4j.storageengine.api.PropertySelection, org.neo4j.internal.kernel.api.PropertyCursor)'"
}

Parameters:

{
  "dependencies_projection": "artifact-centrality", 
  "dependencies_projection_node": "Artifact", 
  "dependencies_projection_weight_property": "weight"
}

To Reproduce

• Java: OpenJDK Runtime Environment Temurin-21.0.6+7 (build 21.0.6+7-LTS)
• GDS version: 2.16.0
• Neo4j version: 5.26.5 community edition
• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04.5

Steps to reproduce the behavior

• Clone https://github.com/JohT/code-graph-analysis-pipeline.git
• Check out branch reproduce/graph-data-science-2-16-0-projection-issue
• Use Java 21 (e.g. Temurin-21.0.6+7)
• Run export NEO4J_INITIAL_PASSWORD=neo4jinitial
• Run ./scripts/examples/analyzeAxonFramework.sh 4.11.0

Example pull requests that reproduce the issue:

• Reproduce graph-data-science > 2.13.x projection issue JohT/code-graph-analysis-pipeline#367
• Update dependency JohT/open-graph-data-science-packaging to v2.16.0 JohT/code-graph-analysis-pipeline#363

[knutwalker]

Hey, thanks for the issue.

GDS 2.16 is not compatible with Neo4j 5.26, it requires 2025.03.
The latest version to support Neo4j 5.26 is GDS 2.13.
See out compatibility table for details.

Starting with GDS 2.13, a single GDS version is only compatible with a single database version, they need to be updated together.

[JohT]

@knutwalker, one question comes into my mind: Wouldn't it make sense to bump the major version of graph-data-science in this case?

[knutwalker]

@JohT I understand it would be beneficial. However, the actual GDS API itself does not have a breaking change and we have historically not included the DB support in the versioning semantics. For any Neo4j 5.x version, it has always been true that you need a new GDS version (it might have been a patch release, e.g. the 2.6 series). Since Neo4j versions are end-of-life when the next one releases (except for the LTS versions 4.4 and 5.26), we've aligned ourselves with that as keeping backwards compatibility for unsupported versions has been a hindrance for us and the database itself.