You need to use maxInboundMessageSize(int bytes) like this:
ManagedChannel channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forAddress(HOST, PORT)
.maxInboundMessageSize(1024*1024*1024)
.usePlaintext()
.build();
DgraphStub stub = DgraphGrpc.newStub(channel);
The above code sample increases the limit to 1GiB, from default 4MiB.