cypher - Neo4j delete all the nodes in a label and their relationships -

i know question has been asked many times answers didn't solve problem. want delete nodes in label telephonenumber , relationships (millions). have tried first deleting relationships way:

match (:person)-[r:has_telephone_number]->(:telephonenumber) delete r 

but after amount of time error gc overhead limit exceeded. have tried limiting query this:

match (:person)-[r:has_telephone_number]->(:telephonenumber) r limit 100 delete r 

but same error. have tried way:

match (t:telephonenumber) optional match (t)-[r]-() delete t,r 

but same error again. how can delete nodes in label , relationships without exceeding garbage collector overhead limit?

you may want take advantage of apoc procedures apoc.periodic.commit(). also, since you're wanting delete nodes, detach delete help, delete relationships node , delete node itself.

an example of usage might be:

call apoc.periodic.commit(" match (tel:telephonenumber) tel limit {limit} detach delete tel return count(*) ",{limit:10000}) 

you can adjust batch size limit necessary, 10000 works.