Monthly Archives: December 2016

Dec 31 2016
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Java, Problems, Random

OUR OWN MULTI-MODEL DATABASE – PART 2

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If you haven’t read part 1 then do that first or this won’t make sense, well nothing makes sense but this specially won’t.

So before going much further I decided to benchmark our new database and found that our addNode speed is phenomenal, but it was taking forever to create relationships. See some JMH benchmarks below:

Benchmark                                                           Mode  Cnt     Score     Error  Units
ChronicleGraphBenchmark.measureCreateEmptyNodes                    thrpt   10  1548.235 ± 556.615  ops/s
ChronicleGraphBenchmark.measureCreateEmptyNodesAndRelationships    thrpt   10     0.165 ±   0.007  ops/s

Each time I was creating 1000 users, so this test shows us we can create over a million empty nodes in one second. Yeah ChronicleMap is damn fast. But then when I tried to create 100 relationships for each user (100,000 total) it was taking forever (about 6 seconds). So I opened up YourKit and you won’t believe what I found out next (come on that’s some good clickbait).
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Dec 30 2016
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Java, Random, Testing

Our own Multi-Model Database – Part 1

shittydb

I may be remembering this wrong, but I think it was Henry Rollins who once asked, “What came first, the shitty Multi-Model Databases or the Drugs?” His confusion was over whether:

A) there were a bunch of developers dicking around with their Mac laptops and they wrote a shitty database, put it on github, posted on hacker news, and then other developers who were on drugs started using it or…

B) there were a bunch of developers on ketamine and ecstasy and somebody said lets write a shitty database

I think “A” is what probably happens and how we end up with over 300 databases on DB Engines. But what about “B” ? Well I don’t have any good stuff lying around, but I did hurt my foot the other day and the doctors gave me some Tramadol, so lets down some of that and see what happens.
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Dec 27 2016
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Java, Problems

Connected

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The Stereo MC’s song “Connected” could be about some recently gained insight and the realization that maybe some of the people you held dear are phonies and while the reality of the situation is scary, you cannot allow yourself to turn a blind eye anymore or allow yourself to backslide by disconnecting from the real world.

Or it could be a warning about how we’ve all been blinded by SQL databases for too long and we must instead look to connect our data with Graph Databases. About how those new connections may be scary (like because of fraud detection) but they are necessary to better understand reality.

Either way, we may want to see if two nodes in Neo4j are connected and I’m going to show you how to do that faster.
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