The GraphRAG Manifesto: Unlock Better GenAI Results With Knowledge Graphs | Read Now

Neo4j logo

Nodes2024

Dev Conference by Neo4j

Register for NODES 24

You only need to register once to attend all sessions.

Block Format: The Next Generation Graph-Native Storage Engine

Session Track: Data Science

Session Time:

Session description

Block format is the new storage engine powering databases in Neo4j. It features better performance, hardware utilization and scalability over the previous engines. Let's explore how the graph data is stored on disk, why it is important and how it affects the performance of your queries.

Speaker

photo of Valdemar Roxling

Valdemar Roxling

Software Engineer, Neo4j

Valdemar Roxling, Senior software engineer at Neo4j and the lead engineer on the block format project has for several years worked on optimizing performance and hardware utilization in database storage engines.