How to communicate with Neo4j through ODBC

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Market solutions

There are two market solutions to make an ODBC-JDBC bridge :

In this documentation, we will only talk about easysoft.

Easysoft is a solution that make an ODBC-JDBC bridge on your computer. So you have to install it on each machine.

It costs 375 GBD / year, but prices depend on the number of machines where we install software.

Go to download trial version : http://www.easysoft.com/cgi-bin/productdownload.cgi?p=26 (you must create an account)
Download the windows version
Run the executable and follow the wizard. For more information, read the installation guide of easysoft

Download the neo4j jdbc driver (with all its dependencies) here : https://m2.neo4j.org/content/groups/public/org/neo4j/neo4j-jdbc/2.1.4/
Create a new ODBC connection, and select Easysoft ODBC-JDBC Gateway

When you have fullfil this form, you can click on the Test, to check that is everyting is good (your neo4j server must running of course).

Well done, you have your ODBC-JDBC Bridge installed for neo4j !

This feature can be (very) usefull for debugging purpose, but it (really) slowing the ODBC connection.

Go to the Control Panel
Then in Administrative Tools
Click on Data Sources (ODBC)
Click on the Tracing tab
Click on Start Tracing Now. You can also configure where the log file is generated with the Log File Path.