Database Reference
In-Depth Information
The end result will then be our graph database with the imported data, which we
can interactively query from the browser:
The resulting database from the spreadsheet
As mentioned before, this system works very well for smaller imports, but we
will want to use different mechanisms for somewhat larger imports. Let's start
exploring these.
Importing using Neo4j-shell-tools
As you probably know by now, the Neo4j system also has a command-line utility
that you can access by executing the following command from the terminal in your
main Neo4j directory (or
bin\neo4shell.bat
on Windows machines):
bin/Neo4j-shell
In this shell, you can not only execute cypher commands, but you can also extend
the shell with some additional tools. At the time of writing this topic, installing
these tools is very easy: just download and extract them in Neo4j's
lib
directory.
Here's how you can do this:
cd /path/to/your/Neo4j/server
curl http://dist.Neo4j.org/jexp/shell/Neo4j-shell-tools-2.0.zip -o Neo4j-
shell-tools.zip
unzip Neo4j-shell-tools.zip -d lib
