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Gouffe
Gouffe

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Neo4j : Cloud or real hardware?

I'm setting up a new infrasctructure for my company.

Considering the same machine specifications, does running neo4j in the cloud have the same performance as running it on real hardware ? What are the pros and cons ?

Moreover, i'm running it on a windows instance for the moment, would it be better to run it on a Linux appliance ?

Thanks very much for all your answers ! Gouffe

Upvotes: 1

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Answers (1)

Michael Hunger
Michael Hunger

Reputation: 41686

Real hardware is always faster,

virtual disks have some overhead, especially things like EBS. Nowadays there are several SSD offerings from cloud providers (and there is also provisioned I/O).

The virtual CPUs on cloud servers are often also not up to par, that might affect your ability to run graph queries quickly enough.

Still the best - write a test-data-generator for your graph and test it out. If the provisioned cloud infrastructure fits your performance requirements you're good to go.

Check out the Hardware sizing webinar for more details: https://vimeo.com/46049647

Upvotes: 1

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