Connect to Neo4J Data and Transfer Data in Talend

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Neo4J into your workflow in Talend. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Neo4J to transfer Neo4J data in a job flow in Talend.

Connect to Neo4J in Talend as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Neo4J:

1. Add a new database connection to Neo4J data: To add a new connection, expand the Metadata node, right-click the Db Connections node, and then click Create Connection.
2. In the resulting wizard, enter a name for the connection.

3. On the next page, select Generic JDBC from the DB Type menu and enter the JDBC URL.

   To connect to Neo4j, set the following connection properties:

   • Server: The server hosting the Neo4j instance.
   • Port: The port on which the Neo4j service is running. The provider connects to port 7474 by default.
   • User: The username of the user using the Neo4j instance.
   • Password: The password of the user using the Neo4j instance.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Neo4J JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.neo4j.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical JDBC URL is below:

   jdbc:neo4j:Server=localhost;Port=7474;User=my_user;Password=my_password;
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.neo4j.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Right-click the connection and then click Retrieve Schema.
6. Click Next with the default options to select the tables you want to import.
7. Finish the wizard with the default options.

Output the ProductCategory Table to a Flat File

You can follow the procedure below to transfer the ProductCategory table to a flat file output component:

1. In the Table Schemas node, drag the tables to the workspace.
2. In the dialog that is displayed, select the tJDBCInput component.
3. Next, drag a tFileOutputDelimited component from the Business Intelligence tab of the Palette into the workspace.
4. Right-click the ProductCategory tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.

Run the project to transfer the data.