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I came across a scenario i.e, Each and every node is to represent with an image . so i have to store image into neo4j. please healp me out with your views on it.

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You have several options:

  1. As @Christophe Willemsen suggested you, save the image on disk or on a web site and reference it using a URL.
  2. Save it in byte[] array as a property.
  3. Save the image in base64 using a Data URI (as String).

Of course option 2 and 3 are not recommendable if the images are very large. Though you could save a thumbnail in the database and the full image on file system.

You should save some metadata too in properties, like type, size, location etc.. to improve searches in the database.

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According to the Neo4j community:

  1. Don't add large blobs of data, e.g. base64, to the graph as property values. This is one of the few anti-use-cases for graph databases.
  2. Store the binary information somewhere, e.g. AWS S3, and have a node representing that photo or video. That node contains the S3 URL as reference and potentially some meta-data as well (width, height, quality, codec).
  3. Use relationships to amend information like tagging, comments, ownership and permissions.

Kudos to Stefan Armbruster (Neo4j Staff) for the info.

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