5.5.5 Handling Data Types
Oracle's property graph support indexes and stores an element's Key/Value pairs based on the value data type. The main purpose of handling data types is to provide extensive query support like numeric and date range queries.
By default, searches over a specific key/value pair are matched up to a query expression based on the value's data type. For example, to find vertices with the key/value pair age:30, a query is executed over all age fields with a data type integer. If the value is a query expression, you can also specify the data type class of the value to find by calling the API get(String key, Object value, Class dtClass, Boolean useWildcards). If no data type is specified, the query expression will be matched to all possible data types.
When dealing with Boolean operators, each subsequent key/value pair must append the data type's prefix/suffix so the query can find proper matches.