back to article Watch for schema design in graph database rollout, business user warns

Developers and architects considering deploying graph databases should spend more time on defining schema than they initially think, according to one multi-national user of the system. Global science and legal publisher RELX Group, formerly Reed Elsevier, runs a search engine for its content which receives about three-quarters …

  1. AMBxx Silver badge
    FAIL

    Old solution

    That solution is as old as the hills. If performance is poor, throw more hardware at it!

    1. Roland6 Silver badge

      Re: Old solution

      And the problem (poor design) is also as old as the hills, so not surprising graph DBMS suffer from this problem.

      1. Charlie Clark Silver badge

        Re: Old solution

        Yep, especially for stuff that isn't changing all the time (which this stuff isn't), focus on getting the indices right and make sure you have enough memory for it.

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