I am doubting a bit what to do with populating a neo4j database from scratch. Mostly I have been focussed on how I could represent neo4j data visually.
Most subjects here are about ingesting data from already existing sources and then it makes sense importing some csv file. However I don't have anything so I practically need to select text and paste it into the database.
So my first thought would be to add some auto rest/crud api in front of the database. If I would be working with mariadb/postgres I would get some api like this[1] and see if I can integrate it with some client to automate input.
It looks like this has been discussed earlier[3], and this sofa[4] looks interesting. I was just wondering if there are any new or better ways than suggested there?
Basically I am going to ingest nodes and their relationships, and I need to have something that registers which user added them. (Don't have yet a db schema)
The other issue I am doubting is that it would be easier for me to implement this in a regular rdbms and then export this data to neo4j, but disadvantage is then I can't view added data real time.
So I was wondering if someone is doing something similar, adding data 'manually' and what they decided to implement.
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