I’m a little confused. OpenCypher MERGE statements do not require you to set an ID when loading data. This is ideal unless you want to externally track each node with its ID somewhere else.

However, neptune seems to require you to set some kind of ID when uploading OpenCyhper data. Is this actually required?

What is this ID, why do they do this and how am I supposed to accomplish this on massive sets of data? Do I need an external lookup per say, user email to get its arbitrary ID to feed into neptune?

This makes absolutely no sense to me and I’m not sure why neptune requires this. It’s making it impossible to upload our data.