Import of large dataset in Neo4j taking really long (>12 hours) with Neo4j import tool

Question

I have a large dataset (about 1B nodes and a few billion relationships) that I am trying to import into Neo4j. I am using the Neo4j import tool. The nodes finished importing

Answer 1

Have a look at the batch importer I wrote for a stress test:

https://github.com/graphaware/neo4j-stress-test

I used both neo4j index and in memory map between two commit. It is really fast and works for both version of neo4j.

Ignore the tests and get the batch importer.