Bullshit Graph Database Performance Benchmarks

Re:Bullshit Graph Database Performance Benchmarks by HyperSane on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:28AM (#34365258)

I use Neo4j to create a CMDB that pulls in data from Active Directory, File Shares, Cloudstrike API, Okta API, Windows Services, Processes, and TCP ports, VCenter, Cisco CDP , ARP tables, Routing Tables, and MAC address tables from routers and switches. Powershell get-foo commands combined with the ConvertTo-JSON makes it very easy to import data from Windows.

A possible query would be match (host:ESXihost)-[:running]->(vm:WindowsVM)-[:running]->(:Process {name:$processName}) return vm,host

I feel graph databases work very well to document the myriad dependencies in a enterprise IT stack and to integrate siloed data.

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Re:Bullshit Graph Database Performance Benchmarks by robertlagrant on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:31AM (#34365651)

That's an interesting idea. Having done CMDB stuff in a previous life and also used Neo4J in my last job, I appreciate that one. I don't know whether you'd gain much vs using Postgres with JSON fields, but I bet the ergonomics are better, and if you do need a big relationally recursive query then it'd work well.

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