[Neo4j] Automating transactions

[Rick Bullotta]

I recommend a hybrid approach of # of operations + time limit.  Otherwise,
in periods of low activity, you could run a chance of a reasonable # of
transactions being discarded on a system failure.  We have chosen to use
both rules for "flushing" writes - after "n" writes or after "m"
milliseconds.

In our case, we ended up queuing writes internally and having worker
thread(s) handle this process in the background.


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Subject: [Neo4j] Automating transactions

All,

I am interested in encapsulating the business of managing transactions
inside a generic graph API.  I assume I will have some max count where after
that many write operations, the API will finish the transaction and start a
new one.  I have a few questions around this.

1)       Can I ignore reads?  If I write a few nodes within a transaction,
can I then read indefinitely, or will the fact that I have an open
transaction cause neo to consume more memory until the transaction is
finished.
2)       Is there any guideline for the relative amounts of memory various
operations take?  (Writing a node, writing an edge, writing a property, and
so on?)  Should I bump my counter once for each of these?
3)       Since the API will operate in a multi-user environment, is a
per-user count a bad idea?  Should I maintain a user count and a global
count and adjust the user limit based upon the number of concurrent users?
Or should I monitor available free memory instead of, or in addition to
maintaining this counter?  Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

-Paul Jackson
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