Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. However sometimes it can be comforting to know how. I am going to show you how to run Neo4j Embedded and Neo4j Server at the same time…and an Unmanaged Extension inside that Neo4j Server. There aren’t any real good reasons why you’d want to do this, but it’s April Fools, so here we go.
In the last blog post we managed to run Neo4j at Ludicrous Speed over http using Undertow and get to about 8000 requests per second. If we needed more speed we can scale up the server or we can scale out to multiple servers by switching out the GraphDatabaseFactory and using the HighlyAvailableGraphDatabaseFactory class instead in Neo4j Enterprise Edition.
But can we go faster on a single server without new hardware? Well… yes, if we’re willing to drop http and switch to Web Sockets.
