Amazon Neptune | Performance

Question 1

Is Neptune ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) compliant?

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Answer 1

Yes, Neptune is ACID compliant with immediate consistency.

Question 2

Do I need to create indices on my data with Amazon Neptune?

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Answer 2

No, existing graph database users are often forced to try and outguess the vendor implementation. Explicitly maintaining indices is just one aspect of that. Amazon Neptune does not require you to create specific indices to achieve good query performance, and it minimizes the need for such second guessing of the database design.

Question 3

What types of graph query workloads are optimized to work with Amazon Neptune?

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Answer 3

Amazon Neptune is designed to support graph applications that require high throughput and low latency graph queries. With support for up to 15 read replicas, Amazon Neptune can support 100,000s of queries per second.

Question 4

Does Amazon Neptune perform query optimization?

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Answer 4

Yes, Amazon Neptune uses query optimization for both SPARQL queries and Gremlin traversals.