Neo4j Generate CSVs

The Neo4j Generate CSV transform writes files for nodes and relationships to the import folder for use with Neo4j’s neo4j-import tool.

Options

OptionDefaultDescription

Transform name

Neo4j Generate CSVs

Graph field

-

The field in this pipeline that contains the graph data (Graph data type)

Base folder (below import/ folder)

/var/lib/neo4j

the folder to write the nodes and relationships types to

CSV files prefix

prefix

prefix to apply to the generated CSV files

Node/Relationships Uniqueness strategy

None

None: don’t handle uniqueness while generating CSVs First: if duplicates are found, keep the first occurrence * Last: if duplicates are found, keep the last occurrence

Please note that primary key of all nodes written to a CSV file needs to be unique. The uniqueness strategy used in this transform is simple in nature and loads everything in memory. Because of this you can consider using a Sort transform to force uniqueness beforehand.

Filename field

filename

field that contains the filename for the CSV files to be generated

File type field

fileType

field that contains the file type for the CSV files to be generated