In my current project we have created a number of integration tests that use the DB as part of our CI/CD pipeline. As the number of tests grow the pipeline slows down and one common suggestion for other databases is to mount your database in memory to avoid I/O.
Now, I tried running our docker container with
@docker run -it --rm -p 7474:7474 -p 7687:7687 -p 8080:8080 \
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/data \
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/logs \
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/var/lib/neo4j/data \
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/var/lib/neo4j/logs \
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/var/lib/neo4j/metrics \
Note that /var/lib/neo4j/data seems to be a symlink to /data so I just mapped both. I also verified with df -h that they actually are mapped to tmpfs.
All looked good, so it was disappointing to see that there was no speed-up of our tests. Are there any official Neo4J resources on how to do this or does anyone in the community have any experience with this?