Day 8: Computer Crash

48 hours into building the database, and my computer crashed (I assume it was some memory issue caused by trying to build the database).

The database files up until the crash are still there, but I can't access any of the data inside for some reason (and I'm not a good enough Neo4j dev to figure out how to).

So the plan is to start again from scratch, this time building my own Neo4j database from Node.js instead of relying on the graphipedia Java/Docker black box.

I do thankfully have an intact and readable XML file of all of the articles and links, generated by graphipedia, so that's a great start. It's like 6GB, so I need to build a streaming reader to parse it one line at a time.

This is taking a lot longer than I expected.