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by olihb 5589 days ago
I'm curious about the performance and scalability of those database. Right now at work we have a MSSQL server with 32 CPU, SSDs and 128GB RAM and I was wondering if a graph database would be better.

Our dataset is very peculiar, we have about 20M nodes and 500M edges in one of our smallest database. We also need fulltext search and complex joins between tables.

I'm wondering if graph databases are mature enough or if they are not quite ready yet for production work. We're a small shop and software development is not our core competency.

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http://markorodriguez.com/2011/02/18/mysql-vs-neo4j-on-a-lar...

Most graph databases use BerkeleyDB under the hood. They are pretty safe to work with.