Saint Nicolas brought me a new Batch Importer!!! by Rik Van Bruggen.
From the post:
After my previous blogpost about import strategies, the inimitable Michael Hunger decided to take my pros/cons to heart and created a new version of the batch importer – which is now even updated to the very last GA version of neo4j 2.0. Previously you actually needed to use Maven to build the importer – which I did not have/know, and therefore never used it. But now, it’s supposed to be as easy as download zip-file, unzip, run – so I of course HAD to test it out. Here’s what happened.
It’s amazing how unreasonable some users can be. Imagine, wanting a simple way to import data into a database. I tell you, IT has been far too easy on users over the years. 😉
If you want your software to be used, making your software more user friendly is a good idea.
As a data point, consider the recent W3C interest in CSV. At the other end of the spectrum from SWRL, wouldn’t you say?
Although I do hope we all remember that CSV was not invented at the W3C. (See RFC4180 for the most common features of CSV files.)
What are you going to import into your Neo4j 2.0.0 database?