Integration of Neo4J and Terracotta?

Question

Has anyone tried or even thought about using a terracotta solution (e.g. ehcache) to run / store Neo4J?

I understand that Neo4J has high availability, but it's really just replication. I wish I really wanted this distributed graph solution, hence neo4j on something like ehcache.

Any thoughts / suggestions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Effective work with graph databases on multiple hosts is very complex

This article about Cache Sharding explains one solution:

http://jim.webber.name/2011/02/23/abe72f61-27fb-4c1b-8ce1-d0db7583497b.aspx

Pay attention, in particular, to the statement: "Separating graphs between physical instances is, as you know, a difficult way to scale graph data", referring to a previous article that discusses details of why this is a complex problem:

http://jim.webber.name/2011/02/16/3b8f4b3d-c884-4fba-ae6b-7b75a191fa22.aspx