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Neo4j Cookbook

You're reading from   Neo4j Cookbook Harness the power of Neo4j to perform complex data analysis over the course of 75 easy-to-follow recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783287253
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Goel Ankur Goel
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Neo4j FREE CHAPTER 2. Connecting to Neo4j 3. The Cypher Query Language 4. Data Modeling and Leveraging with Neo4j 5. Mining the Social Treasure 6. Developing Location-based Services with Neo4j 7. Visualization of Graphs 8. Industry Usages of Neo4j 9. Neo4j Administration and Maintenance 10. Scaling Neo4j Index

Handling high read loads


Most applications require high read throughputs rather than high write throughputs. In this recipe, you will learn more about how to scale Neo4j read throughputs with various techniques.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, install Neo4j using the earlier recipes from Chapter 1, Getting Started with Neo4j, of this book. Since this recipe covers both Community and Enterprise editions, it will be helpful to deploy both the applications, which creates a high read load.

How to do it...

Now, we will learn about the various aspects of scaling Neo4j read throughputs, which are as follows:

  • Increasing the number of slaves: In the HA configuration, read operations can be done locally at each slave; so, increasing the number of slaves along with the load balancers, which properly distribute read requests, can significantly increase the read throughput. Theoretically, if you are getting X number of requests from N number of nodes, then adding one more slave will increase...

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