# Neo4j 4.3 Relationship Index - A small test
**URL:** https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-4-3-relationship-index-a-small-test/40146
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**Created:** [June 21, 2021, 7:17am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-4-3-relationship-index-a-small-test/40146 "2021-06-21T07:17:00Z")
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### Author:  [@dominicvivek06](https://community.neo4j.com/u/dominicvivek06)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2021, 7:17am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-4-3-relationship-index-a-small-test/40146/1 "2021-06-21T07:17:01Z")
After the release of Neo4j 4.3 on June 17th 2021, I did a small test with a demo dataset.
> **[Neo4j 4.3 Relationship Index - Dominic KUMAR's blog](https://www.dominickumar.com/blog/neo4j-4-3-relationship-index/)**
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> After the release of Neo4j 4.3 on June 17th, I wanted to test it during the weekend. The schema of my Dataset The relationship – HAS\_RATINGS has count of number of podcast listeners, who have rated from 1 to 5 stars. Query – match...
Appreciate Neo4j community members to post their performance improvement after upgrading 🙂
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### Author:  [@r\_moquin](https://community.neo4j.com/u/r_moquin)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-4-3-relationship-index-a-small-test/40146/2 "2021-06-23T18:51:57Z")
I'm a little confused after looking at your results, yes there are 2 less steps, but all the actual detailed numbers, memory, time, dbhits are much higher with 4.3:
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| Plan | Statement | Version | Planner | Runtime | Time | DbHits | Rows | Memory (Bytes) |
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| "PROFILE" | "READ\_ONLY" | "CYPHER 4.2" | "COST" | "PIPELINED" | 3 | 17582 | 1781 | 72 |
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vs:
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| Plan | Statement | Version | Planner | Runtime | Time | DbHits | Rows | Memory (Bytes) |
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| "PROFILE" | "READ\_ONLY" | "CYPHER 4.3" | "COST" | "PIPELINED" | 22 | 21127 | 1781 | 136 |
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It appears to me that the performance in this case actually got worse? I'm not an expert in Neo4j performance, so I could be wrong and if I am, please explain 🙂
Thanks!
Ryan