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Chris Gioran

Chief Architect, Neo4j

Chris is the Chief Architect at Neo4j. After a brief excursion to the realm of software engineering for enterprise applications, he is back to the righteous path of doing interesting stuff, currently working on graph databases and some concurrent programming on the side.

Latest Posts by Chris Gioran

Behind the Scenes of Creating the World’s Biggest Graph Database

Chris Gioran, Chief Architect, Neo4j Jun 17, 2021 7 mins read

Trillion Entity Demo in Numbers 1128 forum shards, 1 person shard, 3 Fabric processors Each forum shard contains 900 million relationships and 182 million nodes – the person shard contains 3 billion people and 16 billion relationships between them Overall, the full dataset is 280 TB, and 1... read more