Neo4j Production Ready: Deployment Basics

If you intend to perform a Neo4j production deployment successfully, you’ll likely think about the best application architecture to use and how you’ll operate your Neo4j Enterprise deployment at a scale. Some things you’ll need to think about should include how you intend to guarantee availability uptime, handle failures and efficiently facilitate zero downtime upgrades, which is really just the required baseline to be considered production ready. It may go without say, but to go to production without using Neo4j Enterprise is a huge risk to your applications availability.

Neo4j Deployment Options

In terms of deployment options, there are two ways in which you can incorporate the graph database Neo4j Enterprise version within your app. These can be:

• Using Neo4j embedded: This means you’ll be utilizing the Neo4j Java libraries and packaging it with the rest of your application code into a WAR or JAR file that is deployed to the

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