Inserting and Indexing Bulk data in Neo4J

After attempting to insert 151,000 names into Neo4J and having little success at the endeavour, Rahul Sharma was told to use Neo4J's use BatchInserter API to import data in bulk. In this post we explore his findings.

According to Rahul here are the key differences using the BatchInserter API:

• Transactions are not used while importing data, thus the data gets inserted a whole lot quicker.
• Nodes and Relationships can only be created using a Map of all the properties that are part of the Node/Relationship.
• You do not get explicit Node object, all updates to the Node can only be accomplished using the node-id and updated Map of properties.

Read about the rest of Rahul's import and indexing experience: Inserting and Indexing Bulk data in Neo4J