Delete all nodes and relationships in neo4j 1.8

I know this question is asked by many people already
for my research, here's some questions asked before

1. How to delete all relationships in neo4j graph?
2. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neo4j/lgIaESPgUgE

But after all, still can't solve our problems,
we just want to delete "ALL" nodes and "ALL" relationships

suppose delete "ALL" can see there are left 0 nodes 0 properties and 0 relationships

This is the screenshot i took after executing the delete "ALL" suggested by forum

My question still the same, how do delete all nodes and all relationships in neo4j

Solution 1:

As of 2.3.0 and up to 3.3.0

MATCH (n)
DETACH DELETE n

Docs

Pre 2.3.0

MATCH (n)
OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-()
DELETE n,r

Docs

Solution 2:

you are probably doing it correct, only the dashboard shows just the higher ID taken, and thus the number of "active" nodes, relationships, although there are none. it is just informative.

to be sure you have an empty graph, run this command:

START n=node(*) return count(n);
START r=rel(*) return count(r);

if both give you 0, your deletion was succesfull.

Solution 3:

for a big database you should either remove the database from the disk (after you stop the engine first I guess) or use in Cypher something like:

MATCH (n)
OPTIONAL MATCH (n)-[r]-()
WITH n,r LIMIT 50000
DELETE n,r
RETURN count(n) as deletedNodesCount

see https://zoomicon.wordpress.com/2015/04/18/howto-delete-all-nodes-and-relationships-from-neo4j-graph-database/ for some more info I've gathered on this from various answers