No, --id-type actual 
would but then you have to make sure to have globally unique incrementing id's 
without large holes in the distribution.


> Am 15.06.2015 um 21:31 schrieb Zongheng Yang <[email protected]>:
> 
> I see.  Would setting the `--processors 1` flag for neo4j-import make 
> internal ids and external ids match in my case?  (I understand this is an 
> implementation detail and not a user-facing property.)
> 
> On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 12:07:56 PM UTC-7, Michael Hunger wrote:
>> GraphDatabaseService#getNodeById(long id)
> 
> takes Neo4j internal ids.
> 
> Michael
> 
>> Am 15.06.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Zongheng Yang <zongh...@ <>gmail.com 
>> <http://gmail.com/>>:
>> 
>> Hi Mattias,
>> 
>> Thanks for looking into this.  I understand the difference between Neo4j 
>> internal ids vs. the ids supplied in the csv. 
>> 
>> However for say GraphDatabaseService#getNodeById(long id), does this 
>> function take the user-supplied ids or Neo4j's internal ids?
>> 
>> If it is the former: then the conceptual mismatch doesn't fully explain the 
>> problem (e.g. I queried the nodes/edges using user-supplied ids, and the 
>> internal ids should not mess up with the query results).  If it is the 
>> latter, then for users programming using the Java Core API, how should they 
>> get these correct internal ids (they only know application-supplied ids).
>> 
>> Best,
>> Zongheng
>> 
>> On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 5:23:24 AM UTC-7, Mattias Persson wrote:
>> Hello again, I'm quite confident I know what's happening here. The problem 
>> is the misconception that your INTEGER ids defined in the csv files will map 
>> 1-to-1 to the neo4j node/relationship ids in the store. They will actually 
>> match in most cases, but that's merely a coincidence.
>> 
>> What you're seeing is the result of some parallelism happening in the 
>> importer where batches of 10k nodes/relationships flows through different 
>> steps, where some steps may execute multiple batches in parallel and doesn't 
>> care if reordering happens. Ids are assigned at the end.
>> 
>> You're looking at the ids and see that they mismatch, but if you look at 
>> their data you should see that all relationships match the csv files. So 
>> please disregard the seemingly close match of neo4j node/relationship ids 
>> with the csv input ids as they are quite different in nature.
>> 
>> On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 11:32:55 AM UTC+2, Mattias Persson wrote:
>> Hi, I'm one of the main authors of the import tool and I find this issue 
>> quite interesting.
>> 
>> Would you be able to share your dataset with me personally, for the single 
>> purpose of trying to find the root cause?
>> 
>> On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 5:12:43 AM UTC+2, Zongheng Yang wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm using neo4j-import to import nodes and relationships from csv files. 
>> Let's say node id 538398 has about 100 edges and
>> 
>> 538398 -> 370047
>> 538398 -> 379981
>> 
>> are just two of them.  After the import, the neo4j database actually 
>> 
>> - *loses* these two edges
>> - instead *corrupts* the destination ids, as follows
>> 
>>     538398 -> 380047
>>     538398 -> 389981
>> 
>> - *keeps* all other outgoing edges of 538398 correct
>> 
>> The problem seems to be non-deterministic: doing a `rm -rf dbPath` and 
>> re-running neo4j-import seems to fix the issue, for this particular node -- 
>> but I've not done extensive tests to see whether other nodes get corrupted 
>> in this way.
>> 
>> Has anyone seen this before? The graph has on the order of 1 million node, 
>> average degree 40. 
>> 
>> Zongheng
>> 
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