Articles tagged as operations
A light weight approach to validating network port connectivity
If it becomes necessary to validate, particularly in a clustered environment whether Causal Cluster or High Availability, whether or not 1 instance can talk to another instance on a given…
A lightweight approach to testing the Neo4j REST API with Authentication
This article will show examples of how to test the Neo4j REST API for authentication via: Google Chrome Advanced REST Client Linux curl command The Neo4j REST API describes each…
Using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor Neo4j logs
This article describes how to set up Amazon CloudWatch. Amazon CloudWatch Logs allows you to monitor, store, and access your Neo4j log files from Amazon EC2 instances, AWS CloudTrail, or…
An approach to parsing the query.log
When one has enabled query.log through Neo4j Enterprise parameter dbms.logs.query.enabled the included bash shell script can be used to quickly parse the log and identify the top 10 most expensive…
An explanation of the E_COUNT_EXCEEDED WARNing message in Neo4j’s debug.log.
The document aims to explain the E_COUNT_EXCEEDED WARNing messages that Neo4j can write to its debug.log. It also provides some monitoring and troubleshooting options. When running a Neo4j Causal Cluster,…
An explanation of entries in query.log
This document aims to provide descriptions of components of the query.log logfile located at $NEO4J_HOME/logs. Note that the following configs in conf/neo4j.conf need to be uncommented for the query log…
An overview of the system database
Neo4j 4.0 and higher versions support the management of multiple databases within the same DBMS. All these databases are controlled through a special database called the system database. This article…
Analyzing a java heap dump
The purpose of this article is to help you go through the acquired heapdump with Eclipse MAT. It covers how to parse a large heap files and what to look…
Assign or restrict CPU cores to Neo4j process
Operating system run performance-critical applications on multi-core processors using something called "processor affinity" or "CPU pinning". This feature "binds" a running process to particular CPU core(s), which can be beneficial…
Backup Failed. Unexpected error: Base directory for SSL policy with name 'default' does not exist.
This article is based on a defect report with a suggested workaround until a fix becomes available. When running backup (full or incremental) you may encounter the following error in…
Throttling Bolt Requests
When large amounts of data are sent between a Neo4j database and a client (typically large query results, from server to client), there are a few hidden throttling mechanisms that…
Can I use NFS as my filesystem or datastore storage?
The short answer is no. Although this may seem harmless, the reason for this is not performance related, but rather for control over locking files. NFS and other filesystems that…
Capacity Planning Example
Here is a back of the napkin example of capacity planning for a Neo4j workload for the following list of requirements: Requirements Analysis 1) Estimating an initial database size of…
Change logging levels in Neo4j Embedded
In order to change the default logging levels in a Neo4j embedded instance, you must edit/define the configuration file, which is XML. In particular the file is neo4j-logback.xml. The neo4j-logback.xml…
Changes to metrics.csv reporting from 2.x to 3.x
Metrics reporting is an Enterprise feature which upon enablement allows for the creation of .csv files at a specified interval to record key metrics. This is described in detail at…
Retired: Changing your Garbage Collection Method to G1
When to Use G1: By default, Neo4j versions 2.2 and earlier use Concurrent Mark and Sweep (CMS) for garbage collection. Customers with large heaps or who are seeing unacceptable garbage…
Checkpointing and Log Pruning interactions
Overview Checkpointing is the process of flushing all pending page updates from the page cache to the store files. This is necessary for ensuring that the number of transactions that…
Example of using the Command Expansion on Windows
The Command Expansion feature, introduced in Neo4j 4.2, is a security feature to avoid having configuration parameters being written in the neo4j.conf file in plain text. The commands are executed…
Configure Neo4j to authenticate users from different OUs using the Active Directory attribute samAccountName
Beginning with Neo4j version 3.2.2, it is possible to authenticate using the Active Directory attribute samAccountName as opposed to the LDAP Display Name attribute. This is described in detail in…
Configuring Neo4j to operate on privileged ports
In some environments, users are required to run Neo4j on ports lower than 1024 due to corporate policies. The following is a sample configuration showing how to configure Neo4j 3.5…
Configuring Remote JMX monitoring
In order to enable JMX Remote monitoring, edit the neo4j.conf file in Neo4j 3.1.x versions and uncomment the following lines: After uncommenting the above lines, restart neo4j. If the neo4j…
Control number of file handles created per Lucene Index
In the more recent Neo4j versions (3.4 onwards), the number of file handles opened by Neo4j may seem to increase compared with that in older versions. Native indexes require a…
Database was successfully initialized, but failed to start
Sometimes when the database does not start it could be something as simple as unnecessary characters in the neo4j.conf file. For example if you add space and/or tab characters to…
How to diagnose locking issues
Since Neo4j 3.4 it’s possible to better understand locking issues caused by concurrent query. This KB article will not detail the basics of locking in Neo4j. We assume a situation…
Diagnosing network latency in a Causal Cluster using MTR
MTR is a simple ICMP based test combining ping and traceroute. The following demonstrates usage of the MTR trace tool to diagnose network latency and packet loss in a Causal…
Displaying Query CPU Utilization and Allocated Bytes in Query log
In Neo4j 3.3 and prior versions, when query logging is enabled with the following configuration parameters: The log is written with output as shown below: Note that it displays CPU…
Docker "Permission Denied" Error
When a docker instance is started, one could get a permission denied error such as and may fail to start. Docker used to run as root and now has been…
Dump the Contents of a Transaction Log
If there is a need to look through the transaction logs, particularly to see if/when a node or relationship (or property) with a given ID was touched, you will need…
Enabling GC Logging
What is Garbage collection and why enabling it? A garbage collection event is a complete pause of the java application (ie: neo4j-server). It can be identified in the debug.log as…
Enabling TLSv1.2 with IBM JDK9
Neo4j 3.4.0 only supports TLSv1.2 by default. IBM JDK9 uses the TLSv1 protocol by default. When attempting to run cypher-shell, users will be unable to connect to Neo4j. To enable…
Explanation of data/log/console.log error of 'TLS certificate error occurred, unable to start server: Neither RSA, DSA nor EC worked…'
On bin/neo4j start the data/log/console.log may log an error similar to Neo4j allows for the configuration of HTTPS certificates via the parameters in conf/neo4j-server.properties. The following are the default values:…
Explanation of error "Database constraints have changed (txId=xxxxx) after this transaction (txId=yyyyy) started, which is not yet supported"
The following error, via bin/neo4j-shell: or as logged in log/debug.log (3.x) or graph.db/messages.log (2.3.x): can be explained by the following scenario: where the exception is thrown at Oct-19-2012 09:05 by…
Explanation of Error: db fails to start with Caused by: org.neo4j.token.api.NonUniqueTokenException: The PropertyKey NamedToken
When attempting to start Neo4j and one is running a Neo4j 4.0.x release and where x is ⇐2 the following error may be encountered and logged in logs\debg.log This error…
Explanation of error "DeadlockDetectedException: ForsetiClient[0] can’t acquire ExclusiveLock… …"
Under specific scenarios a DeadlockDetectedException may be encountered and the behavior is described at https://neo4j.com/docs/java-reference/current/transaction-management/#transactions-deadlocks. When a DeadlockDetected is encountered one option is to simply retry the statement. As a…
Explanation of error NoClassDefFoundError: org/neo4j/kernel/impl/util/JobScheduler
Upon upgrading to Neo4j 3.3, if you were previously using APOC, and did not download and install the version of APOC for 3.3 bin\neo4j start will fail. The contents of…
Explanation of error: procedure is not available due to having restricted access rights, check configuration
Commencing with Neo4j 3.2 when running a stored procedure, for example this may error with The cause of this error is as a result of not configuring the security extensions.…
Explanation of error "Record id 65536 is out of range [0, 65535]"
When running a Cypher statement that creates a new relationship type, for example one may encounter an error which is logged in the $NEO4J_HOME/logs/debug.log as and they key part from…
Explanation of error "Unrecognized transaction id. Transaction may have timed out and been rolled back"
When submitting a request via the Neo4j Transactional Cypher HTTP endpoint, one may encounter the following error This error may occur as a result of the transactions expiration date/time being…
Explanation of lucene-1.0: Too many open files error
If one encounters a 'Too many open files' error in their $NEO4J_HOME/logs/debug.log similar to this can be addressed by setting in your $NEO4J_HOME/conf/neo4j.conf and parameter Without this parameter for each…
Explanation of start failure "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/neo4j/kernel/impl/logging/LogService"
Upon starting Neo4j 3.5 if one encounters the following error in the logs/neo4j.log this is usually indicative of a incompatible APOC jar file installed into $NEO4J_HOME/plugins. With Neo4j 3.5.0 the…
Four ways to check the consistency of a Neo4j graph
When it comes checking the inconsistencies in your graph, there are four methods to do. This article describes them below: 1. The easiest approach is it to utilize the check-consistency=true…
Getting a JVM heap dump
This document provides the process of creating a heap-dump on a java machine to investigate potential memory leaks. Although a heap dump will be auto generated when OutOfMemoryError is thrown…
Helpful Commands When Supporting Neo4j
Top 50 Slowest queries from Query log: Find Longest GC Pauses in debug or messages log: Strip all comments / empty lines of neo4j.conf file: Find a class within a…
Retired: How can I skip Consistency Check during Backup?
Backups in Neo4j automatically run a consistency check against the backed-up store. The backup itself does not take overly long, but the consistency check can take much more time to…
How deletes work in Neo4j
Neo4j uses logical deletes to delete from the database to achieve maximum performance and scalability. To understand how this might appear to an operator of the database, lets take a…
How do I allow for authentication using Active Directory attribute samAccountName
Commencing with Neo4j 3.2.2, it is now possible to authenticate using Active Directory attribute samAccountName as opposed to the LDAP Display Name attribute. The following conf/neo4j.conf parameters must be enabled…
How do I authenticate with cypher-shell without specifying the username and password on the command line
When using $NEO4J_HOME/bin/cypher-shell at the command line and authentication is enabled via the setting $NEO4J_HOME/conf/neo4j.conf: a username and password can be provided on the command line using the parameters -u…
How do I automate the copy of auth files in a clustered environment
In a clustered Neo4j implementation, user authentication files are recorded in each instance at $NEO4J_HOME/data/dbms. Since this defined per each instance in the cluster if for example you change the…
How do I configure init and max java heap when running bin/neo4j-backup
When running $NEO4J_HOME/bin/neo4j-backup if a Java out of heap/memory error occurs you may want define the init and max Java heap to be used by neo4j-backup. The default behavior is…
How do i configure Neo4j so that data/graph.db/messages.log is automatically rotated
As tested and verified with Neo4j 2.3.0, the data/graph.db/messages.log, its size and number of rotated archives is governed by the following parameters in the conf/neo4j.properties file With the above default…
How do I convert Neo4j logs from base UTC to local timezone
With the introduction of Neo4j 3.3.1 it is possible to represent date timestamps in your $NEO4J_HOME/logs/* in either UTC or SYSTEM timezone through the implementation of dbms.logs.timezone However for prior…
How do I display date and time of when neo4j was started and other metrics
The following Cypher will utilize the JMX metrics as part of 3.1 Enterprise and display the date/time when Neo4j was started. which will produce output similar to: In the above…
How do I enable Java Flight Recorder and view the Results
Java Flight Recorder can be used to capture low level Java properties and run-time data about Java processes, for example Neo4j. Per https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/troubleshoot/tooldescr002.html JFR can be activated by configuring JVM…
How do I enable remote HTTPS access with Neo4j 3.0.x
With 3.0.x to enabled remote clients to connect to a HTTPS enabled browser the following parameters in the $NEO4J_HOME/conf/neo4j.conf need to be changed from the default of to The change…
How do I log parameter values into the query.log file
Neo4j 3.0 introduced the ability to log the value of query parameters in the log/query.log file. The settings to control this feature are located in the conf/neo4j.conf file. To enable…
How do I quickly identify long gc pauses via the messages or debug logs
Java Garbage Collection (gc) pauses are monitored by the MonitorGc process in Neo4j, and recorded in the $NEO4J_HOME/logs/debug.log ( or $NEO4J_HOME/data/graph.db/messages.log for Neo4j v2.3.x and prior). To quickly find the…
How do I quickly switch between multiple graphs without modifying neo4j.conf?
If you have multiple graphs set up and want to quickly switch between each without modifying dbms.active_database in conf/neo4j.conf, you can accomplish this with a neo4j restart and with the…
How do I run Consistency Check Manually?
If you skip the Consistency Check part of neo4j-backup, or you want to check that all is well with a data store, you can run the tool against an offline…
How do I recover from No space left on device
If one does not routinely monitor the disk space usage on a Neo4j server one may encounter a 'No space left on device' (for linux implementation) or a 'Low Disk…
How to avoid using excessive memory on deletes involving dense nodes
In situations where you know you need to delete a bunch of nodes (and by rule their relationships as well), it can be tempting to simply use DETACH DELETE and…
How to collect Neo4j logs
When raising Neo4j Support cases, it is important to upload Neo4j logs. This allows the Neo4j Support Engineers to efficiently begin working on the support case. The following log files…
How to configure mixed-mode security (native and LDAP) in Neo4j
For environments where you need both LDAP authentication as well as some native user accounts, there is a way to allow this in Neo4j 3.1 and newer. Use the configuration…
How to configure off-heap transaction state
Commencing with Neo4j 3.5, it is possible to store some of transactions' data in off-heap memory. This can help to reduce GC pressure and/or prevent OOM crashes in a limited…
How to estimate initial memory configuration
The initial and eventual memory configuration parameters can be a moving target, based on how your store changes in size and how your workload increases or changes over time. This…
How to fix "Cannot close the PageCache while files are still mapped"
Incorrect file permissions on store files It is common to start the database as different users, this can leave store files owned by other user ids. ( e.g. root )…
How to generate sysinfo output from Cypher
If you need to generate the equivalent output from command :sysinfo as run from the Neo4j Browser at http://localhost:7474 this can be achieved by running the following Cypher To which…
How to logrotate neo4j.log file
The neo4j.log file is a redirection to STDOUT. When you implement a default logrotate strategy, Neo4j will not be able to write to that file anymore after a rotation. Solution…
Retired: How to manually clear the Node and Relationship Cache
When troubleshooting transient issues or testing out queries on warm vs. cold cache, you may want to try clearing out the cache without necessarily restarting the Neo4j database. To achieve…
How to monitor Neo4j with Prometheus
Commencing with the release of Neo4j Enterprise 3.4, one can now use the open source monitoring tool Prometheus to monitor Neo4j. The following article details a basic Prometheus implementation to…
How to properly shutdown a Neo4j database after receiving the message took more than 120 seconds to stop
The neo4j script under the bin/ directory of any standard Neo4j install is the primary means of shutting down a running Neo4j instance. That script accepts a stop argument that…
How to Setup Neo4j to Startup on Linux Server Reboot
If you want to emulate the Neo4j RPM service with a tar installation on Linux systems, do the following steps: As root: Copy the $NEO4J_HOME/bin/neo4j script file to /etc/init.d Edit…
Solving the "Store copy failed due to store ID mismatch" error
It is possible that after seeding a cluster or restoring from a backup, you may encounter the following error while starting your cluster: In most of the cases, this issue…
How to Use the Debug Log Parser Script
For analysis of the Neo4j debug.log, read this guide for using the debugInfo.sh parser script. What is the this script? The debug.log is quite verbose and contains a lot of…
Increasing Systemd Thread Limits
Problem In some high workload, and large scale multi-database environments, you may find that your Systemd unit configuration limits the maximum number of processes ("tasks") too low for your use…
Index limitations and workarounds
In this article we discuss index providers and what limitations and workarounds there are. There are two index types in Neo4j, btree and full-text. This article target btree indexes, up…
Installing Neo4j Database on Debian or Ubuntu fails with "The following packages have unmet dependencies"
Installing Neo4j Database on Debian or Ubuntu fails with the error: Why is this happening? The apt package manager is not handling multiple versions of a package, in this case…
Large Delete Transaction Best Practices in Neo4j
In order to achieve the best performance, and avoid negative effects on the rest of the system, consider these best practices when processing large deletes. Start by identifying which situation…
Linkurious bolt configuration
Default Linkurious configuration contains the following snippet in the production.json configuration file: With the documentation stating the following: Where the URL can be set to http/https/bolt/bolt+routing. However, using the above…
Lock Manager Differences Explained
Work in Progress Community: uses Java intrinsic locks, i.e. ’synchronized’. this might not perform that well on multiprocessor machines uses Thread.sleep() and Thread.interrupt() to wait for locks. this involves context…
Long GC Pauses caused by application code calling System.gc()
When investigating the cause of long garbage collection cycles, it is often useful to enable GC logging. You can do so by following the product documentation. Once this is enabled,…
Manually Merging neo4j-wrapper.conf into neo4j.conf in Neo4j 3.1
Neo4j 3.1 takes the configuration changes made in Neo4j 3.0 a step further, and ships with a single configuration file: conf/neo4j.conf. This is the result of merging the contents of…
Manually Migrating Configuration Settings from Neo4j 2.x to Neo4j 3.x
One of the major changes in Neo4j 3.0 was the reworking of configuration files and the individual configuration setting naming convention to make it more consitent and managable going forward.…
Migrating Explicit Lucene Indexes to Native Schema Indexes
Given that there are still some customers on the older Neo4j releases that utilize legacy/explicit indexes, we will discuss a few pointers here on how to convert these indexes to…
How do I establish a simple HTTP Server local to my Neo4j Instance to serve CSV files
When using LOAD CSV one can define the source file to be either at a local file system (i.e load csv from 'file:///…' ) or a webserver ( i.e. load…
Retired: Modifying the http.log Format on Neo4j 2.x
Prior to Neo4j 3.0, the http.log format was controlled by neo4j-http-logging.xml. The default format works fine, except when you need to diagnose problematic long-running queries. The HTTP requests to the…
Run multiple Causal Clusters locally using Docker
It’s rather easy to run multiple causal clusters on the same server or machine. You need to ensure: Each cluster needs to run on its own Docker network Overlapping port…
neo4j-admin load causes "Not a valid Neo4j archive"
When using neo4j-admin load for loading a .dump file, following error is observerd: Sometimes this has nothing to do with the formatting of the .dump file as indicate by Not…
Neo4j behaviour when running out of disk space (3.4+)
Following the improvements on the recovery process after an instance runs out of disk space introduced in v3.4.0, this article aims to offer a view on the behaviour of Neo4j…
Neo4j’s commit process explained
This article will try to guide you through Neo4j’s commit and replication processes both for single instances and causal clusters. Single Instance When you call tx.commit(), the transaction will go…
Neo4j current transaction commit process order
Transactions in Neo4j use a read-committed isolation level, which means they will see data as soon as it has been committed and will not see data in other transactions that…
Neo4j Desktop password change failure
This document provides info and resolution for the error message on a clean install of Desktop 1.0.2x, Neo4j DB version 3.3.x mentioning "Database failed to create: Error: Could not change…
Bulk Import / Backups into running 4.0 instances
Neo4j 4.0 allows for multiple running databases. You can use neo4j-admin import or neo4j-admin restore to import or restore a database into a new database on a running 4.0 instance.…
Neo4j specific http request user agent strings
For those APOC commands that retrieve data using HTTP/HTTPS, and or running Cypher LOAD CSV the request will be sent with Neo4j specific user-agent/browser identifiers. Below is an example log…
Neo4j Streams - Kafka Integration - List of Must Gather for Troubleshooting
When troubleshooting issues on Neo4j Streams, use the below list of must gather information points to help investigating. Which Plugin/Module are you using? Neo4j Streams Source Neo4j Streams Sink Neo4j…
Parsing json query logs
There are times when we have to examine a query log in order to find longest running queries and/or other problem queries such as those with missing indexes or when…
Getting "Permission Denied" errors after using neo4j-admin commands
If you have leveraged Debian or RPM Packages to install Neo4j on Linux (or used one of the Public Cloud Marketplace offerings), you need to be careful of file and…
Preserving the Neo4j pagecache across database restarts
Commencing with Neo4j 3.4 and as a result of PR 10957, and when using Neo4j Enterprise the Neo4j pagecache will be preserved across database restarts and as such a need…
Query to kill transactions that take longer than X seconds and doesn’t contain certain keywords
In Neo4j we currently have the configuration property referred to as execution guard: that can be set automatically to kill transactions that take more than “x” seconds (x is equal…
Recreating Indexes and Constraints on 3.5
This article describes the process to drop and recreate all indexes and constraints on 3.5.x. This is a recommended step after upgrading from versions earlier then 3.5 so that all…
Redirect Neo4j logs to sysout (using rsyslog)
Sometimes - due to organizational requirements, security, indexing or plain convenience - we want to output all of our application logs to Linux’s sysout. While Neo4j doesn’t offer this feature,…
Requirement makes database unavailable: Database available --- INITIALIZED diagnostics START ---
When running neo4j-admin backup, the debug.log shows a message that appears to indicate that the database restarted; however, this is not the case. Let’s explain why this message is showing…
Sending Neo4j messages to a Slack channel
Although not specific to Neo4j and this knowledge base document is provided as a convenience, if your environment has a Slack implementation, then Slack provides an API to allow you…
How to specify a separate debug.log for the backup process?
When running neo4j-admin backup on a running Neo4j instance the backup logs are also written into the existing Neo4j instance debug.log and can get confusing as to which line items…
Startup failure due to misconfigured unmanaged extensions or plugins
Occasionally, following upgrades, one might encounter Neo4j server initialisation failure due to an exception similar to: This exception is usually thrown in following situations: When the plugins directory (by default…
Stopping the Neo4j docker image in order to restore from a backup
In a neo4j docker installation, the neo4j-admin restore requires the neo4j service to be stopped as one can’t do a restore on a running database. Subsequently, running as a docker…
Store Format Versions Reference Guide
In some situations, you may see a log message or exception that refers to a store format version, and it is not clear which Neo4j store format it is referring…
Explantion of "storeId is different from this machine" error
If you encounter a "Failed to serve TxPullRequest for … storeId xxxxxx because that storeId is different from this machine with Store…" in your $NEO4J_HOME/logs/debug.log similar to: This means that…
Understanding Database Growth
The easiest way to determine the size of your graph is through the filesystem and summing up the size of the files named *store.db*. For example on linux implementations one…
Understanding logical logs and effects of parameters keep_logical_logs and logical_log_rotation_threshold
Neo4j maintains logical logs for incremental backup and cluster consistency. The logical logs are named as follows: When one runs a database backup, via bin/neo4j-backup, if the -to <target directory>…
Understanding memory configurations for neo4j-admin backup
When using bin\neo4j-admin backup to backup a Neo4j database, Neo4j Support recommends explicitly defining the JVM heap size and pagecache memory to be used by the backup JVM process. If…
Understanding transaction and lock timeouts
One way to handle runaway queries is to impose a time limit that will terminate a query when exceeded. There are some subtleties here that need to be understood to…
Upgrading to Neo4j 3.0 Enterprise Step-by-Step - Linux
Neo4j 3.0 is a major release that includes both a directory structure reorganization and a configuration file/parameter name overhaul. This means that upgrading to it requires some additional consideration and…
Use Java Runtime 11 with Neo4J 3.5.x
Neo4j 3.5.x supports Java 11 as runtime, however custom code should still be compiled against Java 8. As a best practice, it is recommended to maintain your infrastructure environment on…
Useful Cypher statements for suspending and reactivating users
Commencing with Neo4j 3.1 and implementaion of native database users it is possible to suspend a user, thus preventing the user from further authenticating in. To view all suspended users…
Using AWS CLI to upload/download files to Amazon S3 bucket
If one has installed the AWS CLI To download a file from a S3 bucket anonymously run: and/or to upload to a Neo4j S3 buck anonymously run: replacing <AWS Instance…
Using Cypher and APOC to move a property value to a label
Commencing with Neo4j 3.0 and the introduction of stored procedures as well as APOC one can utilize the stored procedure apoc.create.addLabels to move a property to a label with Cypher…
Using Cypher to generate Cypher statements to recreate Users and Roles
The following can be used to extract user and role definitions from an existing database and the resultant output can be played back on another Neo4j database. The resultant output…
Access to the neo4j-shell in NEO4J CE 3.x
From Neo4j 3.0 access to neo4j-shell is no longer possible from the desktop-installers for Windows and OSX. To use neo4j-shell, you have to download the TAR/ZIP distribution from: http://neo4j.com/download/other-releases/ For…
Warm the cache to improve performance from cold start
Note: For 3.5.x forward the details below are no longer applicable as Neo4j will keep record of what is in the pagecache at all times and upon restart of Neo4j…
Where is my neo4j.log in Ubuntu Linux?
In most Neo4j server environments, all logs will be found in NEO4J_HOME/logs. However, when Neo4j is running as a service on a Ubuntu (debian) Linux environment, usually installed via apt-get…
Why does my CREATE CONSTRAINT take so long to complete
When creating a constraint, for example this will require a lock on all nodes with the label the constraint is being created for, in this case ZipCode If you have…
Will execution_guard_enabled work in my release of Neo4j?
Background From the beginning, the execution guard was never meant to be used by the general public. However, the feature was there in the product, though undocumented, and it did…