A few folks have come to us recently with the need to trace lineages of nodes of variable depth many hops away. You can run into this need if you are looking at the ancestries of living things, tracing data as it flows through an ETL, large network connectivity maps, etc. These types of queries tend to be murder on relational databases because of the massive recursive joins they have to deal with. Let’s give them a try in Neo4j.
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Let’s talk about writes, baby. Let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things. And the bad things that may be. Let’s talk about writes, and indexing and batching, and transactions in Neo4j. Let’s start with my environment. A 3 year old MacBook Pro (dying to get the new ones… once they finally come out) running a 4 core 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 that is hyper-threading and pretending to have 8. An Apple SM256E SSD that is about average as far as SSDs go. So definitely not a production grade server, so bear that in mind.
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Max De Marzi 