Graph analytics on Aura

There are two ways to run graph analytics on Aura:

Graph Analytics plugin

AuraDB Professional

The Graph Analytics plugin allows you to use the Graph Data Science library in any AuraDB Professional instance with the following requirements:

  • Neo4j version 5 or later

  • 4 GB of memory or more

  • Any supported cloud providers and regions

You can enable or disable the plugin when necessary.

You can no longer use the plugin if you resize your instance to less than 4 GB of memory.

AuraDS

AuraDS Professional AuraDS Enterprise

AuraDS is the fully managed version of the Graph Data Science library.

AuraDS instances have the following features:

  • Upgrades and patches are automatically applied.

  • Can be seamlessly scaled up or down.

  • Can be paused to reduce costs.

Plans

AuraDS offers the AuraDS Professional and AuraDS Enterprise subscription plans. The full list of features for each plan is available on the Neo4j Pricing page.

Updates and upgrades

AuraDS updates and upgrades are handled by the platform, and as such do not require user intervention. Security patches and new versions of GDS and Neo4j are installed within short time windows during which the affected instances are unavailable.

The operations are non-destructive, so graph projections, models, and data present on an instance are not affected. No operation is applied until all the running GDS algorithms have completed.

Comparison

There are important operational differences between the Graph Analytics plugin on AuraDB Professional and AuraDS.

AuraDB Pro + Graph Analytics plugin AuraDS

Rolling updates clear all projections.

Rolling updates save projections to disk and restore them upon restart.

Backup files do not include projections.

Backup files include all projections.