Deleting data

The APOC library contains a procedure that that can be used to delete graph data.

Procedure for deleting data

Qualified Name Type

apoc.nodes.delete

apoc.nodes.delete(nodes ANY, batchSize INTEGER) - deletes all NODE values with the given ids.

Procedure Deprecated in Cypher 25

Example

The below example will further explain this procedure.

The following deletes all nodes with given id in batches of 1000:
MATCH (s:Student)
CALL apoc.nodes.delete(s, 1000) YIELD value
RETURN value

The procedure apoc.nodes.delete calls the Cypher query DETACH DELETE to delete nodes in batches.

Cypher can also be used to delete nodes with a given id in batches.

The following deletes all nodes with the given id in batches of 1000:
MATCH (s:Student)
CALL {
    WITH s
    DETACH DELETE s
} IN TRANSACTIONS OF 1000 ROWS