Neo4j can be deployed in multiple ways. Either you can run it as a server in a separate process, just like a classic database, or you can use embedded mode where your application controls the lifecycle of the graph database. Both, embedded and server mode can be used to setup a HA scenario with Neo4j enterprise edition.
In cases where Neo4j is used in embedded mode, there is often a demand for having a maintenance channel to the database, e.g. for fixing wrong data. Nothing simpler than that, there’s an easy way to enable the remote shell together with embedded mode, see a example written in groovy:
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The trick is to
- have the
neo4j-shell-<version>.jaron your classpath and - pass in the config option
remote_shell_enabled='true'
With this in place you can use the bin/neo4j-shell from your Neo4j distribution and access your embedded instance.