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user4487849
user4487849

Reputation: 21

Graph database in distributed env

I have a question concerning graph databases! Is there a mechanism to use graph databases in a distributed environment?! I mean can you distribute a graph database?! Can we even traverse a graph database in a distributed environment?!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 312

Answers (3)

Oleksandr
Oleksandr

Reputation: 3764

Definitely you can do it.
There are different databases which scale very good nowadays (JanusGraph, OrientDB, ArangoDB etc).
Even if you have a very big database which has to be scaled beyond a single datacenter to multiple geo-distributed datacenters you still has options. For example, you can use JanusGraph with Cassandra / ScyllaDB storage backends. It will give you an option to asynchronously synchronize all your data from different datacenters.
Of course, there are some issues to be solved like consistency and so on but with today's tools, it's very possible to organize a distributed graph database.

Upvotes: 1

FrobberOfBits
FrobberOfBits

Reputation: 18022

Yes, you can use all sorts of graph databases in distributed environments. Can you distribute a graph database? Definitely yes.

BUT - distributing the same graph database in many different places (to speed up reads) is quite easy, and done all the time. Distributing a ridiculously massive database (so that parts of the graph database are in a bunch of different places) is quite hard.

I recommend this related question which talks about sharding and distributing databases. Pay particular attention to the bit about "sharding is an anti-pattern".

Upvotes: 0

Stefan Armbruster
Stefan Armbruster

Reputation: 39925

Neo4j enterprise edition features clustering, read more on http://neo4j.com/docs/stable/ha.html.

Upvotes: 0

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