Neo4j ETL now ready for the cloud

Since release (1.4.1) of the Neo4j-ETL tool (graph-app) also works fine with remote databases like Aura.

Now you can import your relational data into any self-hosted or provisioned remote database in a few simple steps.

We had to adapt two things to make this possible. Thanks a lot to our partners at Larus BA, Italy for working on these features.

In the past, the ETL-Tool used LOAD CSV of a local file-url, which doesn’t work anymore if your database is remote and can’t access your local CSV files. So we added a mode that reads the CSV locally and sends batches of rows as parameters to the remote Neo4j Database, where they are inserted using UNWIND and MERGE.

Secondly as Desktop doesn’t provide a local directory for remote databases to store mapping information, config and the CSV dump in, we use the temporary directory on your machine.

We also enabled support for the newneo4j URI scheme to connect to a causal cluster of Neo4j instances.

Please try out the ETL and let us know how it works for you for different relational databases and Neo4j deployments. If you encounter issues please raise them on GitHub.