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## 5.4. Add

Each index supports associating any number of key-value pairs with any number of entities (nodes or relationships), where each association between entity and key-value pair is performed individually. To begin with, let’s add a few nodes to the indices:

    // Actors
    Node reeves = graphDb.createNode();
    actors.add( reeves, "name", "Keanu Reeves" );
    Node bellucci = graphDb.createNode();
    actors.add( bellucci, "name", "Monica Bellucci" );
    // multiple values for a field
    actors.add( bellucci, "name", "La Bellucci" );
    // Movies
    Node theMatrix = graphDb.createNode();
    movies.add( theMatrix, "title", "The Matrix" );
    movies.add( theMatrix, "year", 1999 );
    Node theMatrixReloaded = graphDb.createNode();
    movies.add( theMatrixReloaded, "title", "The Matrix Reloaded" );
    movies.add( theMatrixReloaded, "year", 2003 );
    Node malena = graphDb.createNode();
    movies.add( malena, "title", "Malèna" );
    movies.add( malena, "year", 2000 );

Note that there can be multiple values associated with the same entity and key.

Next up, we’ll create relationships and index them as well:

    // we need a relationship type
    DynamicRelationshipType ACTS_IN = DynamicRelationshipType.withName( "ACTS_IN" );
    // create relationships
    Relationship role1 = reeves.createRelationshipTo( theMatrix, ACTS_IN );
    roles.add( role1, "name", "Neo" );
    Relationship role2 = reeves.createRelationshipTo( theMatrixReloaded, ACTS_IN );
    roles.add( role2, "name", "Neo" );
    Relationship role3 = bellucci.createRelationshipTo( theMatrixReloaded, ACTS_IN );
    roles.add( role3, "name", "Persephone" );
    Relationship role4 = bellucci.createRelationshipTo( malena, ACTS_IN );
    roles.add( role4, "name", "Malèna Scordia" );

Assuming we set the same key-value pairs as properties as well, our example graph looks like this:

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