We've been doing an easy Gig per minute using the batch updater. All the best Neil Ellis
(Sent from my iPhone) On 16 Jun 2009, at 15:50, Dennis Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, I just came across Neo4J, and while the read performance > sounds great, I haven't seen anything about write performance. I > suspect it's good, but wanted to ask. > > I'm considering using Neo for a threaded discussion forum. It > definitely sounds like it would retrieve a discussion tree very > quickly. Would it also be fast in posting new messages? > > Root comments would be attached to a topic, so by starting at the > topic's node you can get a list of the latest posts. It seems the way > to do this would essentially be to make a linked list of posts, and > with each new one, splice the new node in between the topic node and > the previous head of the list. Would there likely be undue contention > at that point? > > I'll also be rating comments, and would like to get a list of > highest-rated comments. For that, I would likely keep a list of them. > Keep the current low score somewhere, refresh it periodically with a > scan of the list, anything above the low score just add it to the > list, and periodically purge the excess. > > In a relational database of course it's easy, just sort by the > scores...but that score index is going to be constantly re-sorting > itself, so there's plenty going on, you just don't see it. I suspect > Neo would actually be more performant since you don't have to keep > *all* the comments sorted by score. > > Am I on the right track? > _______________________________________________ > Neo mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
