Benchgraph Backstory: The Untapped Potential

The blog post discusses the updates and improvements made to Benchgraph, a platform for benchmarking graph databases, specifically focusing on Memgraph and Neo4j. The platform now uses larger and more complex datasets, such as the LDBC social network dataset, to better reflect real-world scenarios and performance. It has introduced new benchmarking procedures, including testing with multiple concurrent clients and a new "volcanic" warm-up phase to evaluate database caching performance. The results indicate that Memgraph generally outperforms Neo4j in concurrent workloads and certain query scenarios, though Neo4j shows improvements in warm-up conditions. The post emphasizes the importance of running personalized benchmarks on specific datasets and queries for accurate performance insights and announces plans to expand Benchgraph's capabilities and database support in the future.