diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/.gitignore b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95d3088
--- /dev/null
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+HELP.md
+target/
+!.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
+!**/src/main/**/target/
+!**/src/test/**/target/
+
+### STS ###
+.apt_generated
+.classpath
+.factorypath
+.project
+.settings
+.springBeans
+.sts4-cache
+
+### IntelliJ IDEA ###
+.idea
+*.iws
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+
+### NetBeans ###
+/nbproject/private/
+/nbbuild/
+/dist/
+/nbdist/
+/.nb-gradle/
+build/
+!**/src/main/**/build/
+!**/src/test/**/build/
+
+### VS Code ###
+.vscode/
+/docker/neo4j_db/
diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/docker/docker-compose.yml b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 6cef0a7..4385615 100644
--- a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -4,4 +4,15 @@ services:
     image: neo4j:latest
     ports:
       - 7474:7474
-      - 7687:7687
\ No newline at end of file
+      - 7687:7687
+    environment:
+      - NEO4J_AUTH=neo4j/password
+      - NEO4J_apoc_export_file_enabled=true
+      - NEO4J_apoc_import_file_enabled=true
+      - NEO4J_apoc_import_file_use__neo4j__config=true
+      - NEO4J_PLUGINS=["apoc", "graph-data-science"]
+    volumes:
+      - ./neo4j_db/data:/data
+      - ./neo4j_db/logs:/logs
+      - ./neo4j_db/import:/var/lib/neo4j/import
+      - ./neo4j_db/plugins:/plugins
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/java/com/learning/ai/service/Neo4jVectorStoreService.java b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/java/com/learning/ai/service/Neo4jVectorStoreService.java
index 991015b..542ead0 100644
--- a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/java/com/learning/ai/service/Neo4jVectorStoreService.java
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/java/com/learning/ai/service/Neo4jVectorStoreService.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ public void storeEmbeddings() {
         List<Document> documents =
                 List.of(new Document("I like football."), new Document("The weather is good today."));
         vectorStore.add(documents);
+        LOGGER.info("Added initial documents");
     }
 
     public AIChatResponse queryEmbeddingStore(String question) {
diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java
index b9c9382..624651f 100644
--- a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ public class TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample {
     @Bean
     @ServiceConnection
     Neo4jContainer<?> neo4jContainer() {
-        return new Neo4jContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("neo4j:5"))
-                .withoutAuthentication()
-                .withLabsPlugins("apoc");
+        return new Neo4jContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("neo4j:5")).withLabsPlugins("apoc");
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {