Truth Behind Neo4j’s “Trillion” Relationship Graph

Can't imagine the insane amount of memory you'd need for that. Tried neo4j a few years ago, loaded up a small dataset that fit in a 100mb postgres instance and had to stop halfway through when neo4j was consuming tens of gigabytes of memory.

This article really rubbed me the wrong way since it was critical of a major competitor to TigerGraph. I would like to see a response from Neo4j.<p>Neither product is open source. There are a few open source graph databases that scale well.

I&#x27;d love a more lightweight replacement for Neo4j but I need something that has good cypher support. Options are pretty limited.

I think eventually all infrastructure software tends to be written in a language like C, C++, or Rust where you have fine grained, low-level control of memory and performance. For widely used infrastructure, the optimization time is justified by how much it will be used.