Batching Like a Pro Why it is time for you to migrate from apoc.periodic.iterate to CALL { … } IN TRANSACTIONS. The popular plugin APOC Core has long been the bandage on the holes in Cypher, but …

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Neo4j's APOC plugin procedure `apoc.periodic.iterate` is being superseded by native Cypher's `CALL { … } IN TRANSACTIONS` (CIT). CIT offers several advantages: proper memory tracking that prevents OOM crashes, better readability and IDE tooling support, full query planning visibility via EXPLAIN, accurate query statistics, no need for entity rebinding (fetching nodes twice), concurrent transaction support, and an ON ERROR RETRY option added in Neo4j 2025.03. APOC Core is now in maintenance mode with no new features planned, making migration to CIT the recommended path for all bulk transactional operations.