Loading data using client drivers

When you use LOAD CSV, the server is responsible for downloading the CSV content and executing the Cypher statements to load the data. There is another option to load the data into Neo4j. We can use Neo4j drivers from an application to load the data.

Neo4j documentation - Drivers and APIs (https://neo4j.com/docs/drivers-apis/) contains the documentation on all the options available. In this section, we will discuss using Java and Python drivers to load the data.

Neo4j client applications make use of a driver that, from a data access perspective, will work as the main form of communication within a database. It is through this driver instance that Cypher query execution is carried out. An application should create a driver instance and use it in the application. The driver communicates with the Neo4j server using the Bolt protocol.

Let’s take a look at how we can create a driver instance here:

• This shows how a driver instance...