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Neo4j - required hardware for big data

I would like to use Neo4j because it supports two key features of my requirements: fast full-text-search (based on Lucene engine in Neo4j) and joins (or relationships in graphs naming).

I went to Neo4j hardware sizing calculator in order to estimate the hardware size needed for my service and got Graph exceeds calculator limits.

  1. Can Neo4j handle my load? (see sizes below)
  2. If so, what hardware should I use for it?
  3. Are there alternatives which support the key features I need I should look up instead?

My expected data size:
Concurrent request per second: ~5000
Nodes: ~1,000,000,000
Relationships: ~5,000,000,000
Properties per node: ~30
Properties per relationship: ~10

Solution

  • According to this, as of neo4j 3.0 release there is no theoretical limit to the size of your graph. Previously there was a a 34 billion node limit.