An index is created if it doesn’t exist when you ask for it. Unless you give it a custom configuration, it will be created with default configuration and backend.

To set the stage for our examples, let’s create some indices to begin with:

IndexManager index = graphDb.index();
Index<Node> actors = index.forNodes( "actors" );
Index<Node> movies = index.forNodes( "movies" );
RelationshipIndex roles = index.forRelationships( "roles" );

This will create two node indices and one relationship index with default configuration. See Section 5.8, “Relationship indices” for more information specific to relationship indices.

See Section 5.10, “Configuration and fulltext indices” for how to create fulltext indices.

You can also check if an index exists like this:

IndexManager index = graphDb.index();
boolean indexExists = index.existsForNodes( "actors" );