Author: Dave Bechberger

Amazon Neptune version 1.4.5 introduces engine improvements and support for AWS Graviton-based r8g instances. In this post, we show you how these updates can improve your graph database performance and reduce costs. We walk you through the benchmark results for Gremlin and openCypher comparing Neptune v1.4.5 on r8g instances against previous versions. You’ll see performance improvements of up to 4.7x for write throughput and 3.7x for read throughput, along with the cost implications.

In this post, we walk through an example we released for Neptune with integration with Altimeter. Altimeter is an open-source project (MIT License) from Tableau Software, LLC that scans AWS resources and links these resources into a graph. You can store, query, and visualize the data in Neptune. You can query the graph to examine the AWS resources and their relationships in an account. For example, you can query for resources or pathways that expose a cluster with a public IP address to check for security and compliance.

During the lifespan of a graph database application, the applications themselves tend to only have basic requirements, namely a functioning W3C standard SPARQL endpoint. However, as graph databases become embedded in critical business applications, both businesses and operations require much more. Critical business infrastructure is required not only to function, but also to be highly […]