Import Data

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As an Administrator you can initialize a new Dgraph cluster by doing an Initial import and you can import data into a running instance by performing a Live import.

Initial import is considerably faster than the live import but can only be used to load data into a new cluster (without prior data) and is executed before starting the Alpha nodes.

Contact us if you need to do an initial import to a Dgraph backend on Hypermode.

Both options accept RDF N-Quad/Triple data or JSON format.

To load CSV-formatted data or SQL data into Dgraph, first convert the dataset into one of the accepted formats (RDF N-Quad/Triple or JSON) and then load the resulting dataset into Dgraph.

After you convert the .csv or .sql files to RDF N-Quad/Triple or JSON, you can use Dgraph Live Loader or Dgraph Bulk Loader to import your data.