neo4j template slow persistence when dealing with bidirectional relationships

Question

Given the following two objects:

@NodeEntity  
class Foo  
{
   @GraphId   
   long id;  
   @RelatedTo(Bar.class,direction=Direction.BOTH, type="BAR")  
   Set<Bar> bars= new HashSet<Bar>();    
   @Indexed  
   String name;
}  

and

@NodeEntity  
class Bar
{
   @GraphId   
   long id;  
   @RelatedTo(Foo.class,direction=Direction.BOTH, type="Foo")  
   Set<Foo> foos= new HashSet<Foo>();    
   @Indexed  
   String name;
}    

The following persistence level code is dreadfully slow (5-20 seconds per persist slow)

@Service  
class Persister  
{  
   @Autowired  
   Neo4JTemplate template;    
   @Autowired  
   FooRepository fooRepo;    
   @Autowired  
   BarRepository barRepo;  
void go()  
{  
    Bar bar = barRepo.findByName("myBar");  
    if(null != bar)  
    {    
        bar.getFoos().addAll(fooRepo.readAll());    
        return bar;  
    }
     template.save(bar);  
 }    
}

interface BarRepository extends Repository<Bar>  
{  
     Bar findByName(String name);  
}

Answer 1

Are you using Neo4j REST interface? If so, my this post may provide a clue - Performance with @MapResult in spring-data-neo4j

Answer 2

How many foo's are you adding to bar ?

Are you using simple mapping or advanced mapping?

You should have a @Transactional around your go() method, otherwise there will be thousands of small transactions created for each entity added. (in advanced mode, in simple mode that code doesn't save the changes.)