How to create new database in neo4j?

Since you're using Neo 3.x, to create a new database without removing your existing one, you can simply edit the neo4j.conf file in your conf directory of your $NEO4J_HOME.

Search for dbms.active_database=, which should have the default value of graph.db. Replace it with some other name and start neo4j again. Now, a new database will be created under that directory name. To switch back to your previous db, repeat the steps, just replace your new value with graph.db in the configuration file.

Neo Technology has come with a new Desktop Tool that greatly improves productivity called Neo4J Desktop. You can download it here

Using it you can manage different projects, create different databases, and simply manage them / switch between them, using the GUI. Really saves a lot of time.

Apparently in Community Edition you only have 1 database, so I used docker containers to create one server per db. Modify the ports + data volume as shown below:

docker run \
--rm \
--publish=8474:7474 --publish=8687:7687 \
--volume=$HOME/neo4j/data2:/data \
--volume=$HOME/Downloads/neo4j/import:/var/lib/neo4j/import \
--name=neo4j \
--env NEO4J_AUTH=neo4j/password \
neo4j:3.4


# Defaults:
# --publish=7474:7474 --publish=7687:7687 \
# --volume=$HOME/neo4j/data:/data \