Java Async vs Reactive driver

We are currently using Java async driver with Neo4j 4.0.

I had a look at your presentation here where performance results, notably for memory consumptions, are presented to be very better with new Reactive driver.

I would like to know how far is the performance gap between the async and reactive drivers for READ queries with a significant amount of data.

For what I have understood from the documentation, async driver is just supporting flow control whereas reactive driver is working with a Publisher-Subscriber API under the hood. Tell me if I am wrong, but I understand that async driver is just doing some pull with static fetchSize value for batching records, whereas reactive driver is using dynamic push-pull. Am I right ?

So, can we expect a significant difference of performance between async and reactive drivers, in favor of reactive one when the amount of data is big ?

Thanks.

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Hello,

I am also considering to use the Reactive Driver and I am having similar questions about the performance, could anybody answer the question, please.

Thank you

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