Hello all, I am struggling to prevent the following problem. My understanding was the the Neo4j DB automatically created unique IDs for all objects. However I have managed to create data where the same ID is shared by an unrelated Node and Relationship. See the following image: [Screen Shot 2020-…

Hi marlo, one of the id is from node and other from a relationship. As @dana_canzano mentioned -> Neo4j reuses its internal ids when nodes and relationships are deleted. This means that applications using, and relying on internal Neo4j ids, are brittle or at risk of making mistakes. It is ther…

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marlo (Marlo) December 28, 2020, 10:25pm 4

Thank you @dominicvivek06 . I didn't realize about Neo4j reusing ids. I will move over to uuids. All the best.

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