Is it possible to store a graph db in an external hard drive?

[and_manousakis]

I have installed neo4j in my personal laptop and the graph db I'm analyzing keeps growing. Is it possible to move the graph db to an external SSD, load it from there and keep adding more nodes and edges?

Thanks!
Andreas

[koji · Accepted solution]

Hi @and.manousakis

You can change "dbms.directories.data" in neo4j.conf.
And restart Neo4j.

This code is an example.
Set it to your drive and name

#dbms.directories.data=data
dbms.directories.data=D:/MyNeo4jDBData/

Neo4j Graph Database Platform

File locations - Operations Manual

An overview of where files are stored in the different Neo4j distributions, and the necessary file permissions for running Neo4j.

[and_manousakis]

Hi @koji

Thank you for the reply - It worked! 🙂