Re: [Neo] a lot of small embedded databases or one big?

2010-04-13 Thread Craig Taverner
I think this is a very domain specific question. If you data is naturally very disjoint, then there can be value in having separate databases, and benefit from increased total database size, easy clustering/partitioning, etc. But, as you say below, you cannot (or at least not easily) traverse the

[Neo] a lot of small embedded databases or one big?

2010-04-11 Thread TuX RaceR
Hello Neo4j Users! I'd like to store tree data attached to users of a web application. As each user tree depends only on the user, I have the choice of store the user data on a user file. (This is some kind of easy sharding) Is there some kind of problem in creating many small database files?