[Neo4j] Re: When not to use Neo4j

2015-05-10 Thread Mike Holdsworth
I am less and less convinced that we should ever rely on a single database as "the best candidate" for persistence - this is the Oracle or SQLServer discussion based on the misguided notion that simplification comes from consolidating data in to a single vendor product. What differentiates dat

[Neo4j] Re: When not to use Neo4j

2015-05-10 Thread Florent Biville
I would say whenever the data set cannot fit on a single machine. This is not a definitive nogo as you can always shard the data yourself and spread across several (preferably co-located) Neo4j instances but this is far from ideal in most cases, I guess. On Saturday, 9 May 2015 11:07:15 UTC+2,