Creating nodes and relationships at the same time in neo4j

Question

I am trying to build an database in Neo4j with a structure that contains seven different types of nodes, in total around 4-5000 nodes and between them around 40000 relationships

Answer 1

Another interesting approach might be to generate your statements directly in Excel, see http://blog.bruggen.com/2013/05/reloading-my-beergraph-using-in-graph.html?view=sidebar for an example. You can run a lot of CREATE statements in one transaction, so this should not be overly complicated.