# Neo4j Virtual Graph exposes Databricks lakehouse relationships as a graph model

DevFeed: [Neo4j Virtual Graph exposes Databricks lakehouse relationships as a graph model](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/graph-and-lakehouse-friends-at-last-50070.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neo4j.com/blog/developer/graph-and-lakehouse-friends-at-last/>)

Author: Jocelyn Hoppa

Published: 2026-06-17T21:48:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Neo4j](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graph-database-technology-neo4j-blog.md>)

Topics: [Graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphs.md>), [Neo4j](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/neo4j.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databricks.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [cypher](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cypher.md>), [data-lakehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-lakehouse.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databricks.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graph.md>), [lakehouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lakehouse.md>), [many-to-many](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/many-to-many.md>), [neo4j](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/neo4j.md>), [relationships](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/relationships.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>), [virtual-graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-graph.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how Neo4j Virtual Graph adds an explicit graph model to data in a Databricks lakehouse. It shows how join tables and foreign-key relationships can become graph relationships queried with Cypher, which is translated to SQL and executed on existing compute without copying the data.

## Source excerpt

Getting Started With Neo4j Virtual Graph on DatabricksMini Graph Tutorial | TPC-H Databricks Walkthrough | Complex QueriesIf you work in a modern data lakehouse, your data is probably clean, well-governed, and sitting in Databricks. The problem is that relationships are implicit,... Read more ->