[Neo4j] Loading MySQL dump

[Peter Neubauer]

Btw,
On the SQL importer, feedback would be great so it can be made even more useful!

/peter

On Saturday, December 18, 2010, Axel Morgner <axel at morgner.de> wrote:
> Hello Abhi,
>
> you may have a look at the SQL Importer [1].
>
> If you need more control over the import mechanism, and you have MySQL
> tables as XML (f.e. using mysqladmin export), you may use dom4j, Commons
> StringUtils and Java to parse it.
>
> Within a Neo4j transaction, read the XML document, e.g. like this:
>
>          SAXReader xmlReader = new SAXReader();
>          try {
>
>              Document xmlDoc = xmlReader.read(filename);
>
>              Element root = xmlDoc.getRootElement();
>              List<Element> rootChildren = root.elements();
>
>              // Then iterate through child nodes
>              for (Element e : rootChildren) {
>
>                  // Create a node
>                  Node node = graphDb.createNode();
>                  String p = e.elementTextTrim(tagName);
>                  if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(p)) { // optional
>                      node.setProperty(propertyKey, p);
>                  }
>
>              [...]
>
>          } catch (DocumentException ex) {
>              [...]
>          }
>
> Depending of your data model (start here: [2], you may create a node
> structure with some major nodes (= tables) before adding sub nodes (= rows).
>
> If you got large dumps to import, you may use the Neo4j BatchInserter [3].
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Axel
>
> [1] http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/SQL_Importer
> [2] http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Domain_Modeling_Gallery
> [3] http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Batch_Insert
>
> On 18.12.2010 05:22, Abhi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a huge corpus of MySQL dump files of life sciences data which I would
>> like to load into Neo4j. Is there an importer available for this? If not,
>> what is the standard way to go about this problem? Is there any wiki or
>> links for guidance?
>>
>
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