apoc.load.arrow

In APOC 2025.06, this procedure was migrated to the unsupported APOC Extended library. This means that if you are using APOC 2025.06 or later, the procedure is not available in Cypher 25 but can still be used with Cypher 5. For more information, see APOC and Cypher versions.

Details
Syntax	`apoc.load.arrow(file [, config ]) :: (value)`
Description	Imports `NODE` and `RELATIONSHIP` values from the provided arrow file.
Input arguments	Name	Type	Description
	`file`	`STRING`	The name of the file to import data from.
	`config`	`MAP`	This value is never used. The default is: `{}`.
Return arguments	Name	Type	Description
Return arguments	`value`	`MAP`	A map of data loaded from the given file.

Usage Examples

Given an arrow file named test.arrow that contains people and their properties:

test.arrow

name,age,beverage
Selma,9,Soda
Rana,12,Tea,Milk
Selina,19,Cola

We’ll place this file into the import directory of our Neo4j instance.

We can load this file and return the contents by running the following query:

CALL apoc.load.arrow('test.arrow') YIELD value
RETURN value;

Results
value
{name: "Selma", age: "9", beverage: "Soda"}
{name: "Rana", age: "12", beverage: "Tea;Milk"}
{name: "Selina", age: "19", beverage: "Cola"}