How to use neo4j-admin import in community edition?

[kostas_vavouris]

Hello,

i am using Neo4j  Community Edition which runs as a standalone server in a Unix os. The server operates as a service which i can start, stop and find its status. From the documentation i learned that i can not use neo4j-admin import tool  because this tool prepares data to be inserted in a non existant  database. However in Neo4j community edition i can operate only with the default neo4j database and i can not create another. Is there a way to use neo4j-admin import? Can anyone provide the necessary details? Thanks in advance!

[michael_hunger]

You can use the tool, by default it inserts into the neo4j database, so if you shut down the server and use --force it overrides the existing database, then after restart the new data should be available.

You can also chose a different database eg. --database mytest

And then in /etc/neo4j/neo4j.conf set mytest as the "active" database.