Serverless friendly?

Serverless web apps generally make connections to dbs via lambda functions that are created/destroyed per request. This leads to a high number of connections (x per request, as opposed to x per client) when running mongo or postgres. Does AuraDB have any out of box solutions like an API wrapping it such that a connection limit becomes irrelevant? I've seen some conflicting info about connection limits being a thing, but also there being an HTTP API.

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Well, all databases have some connection limits in the end. With Neo4j it's common for people to use similar approaches (for example deploying lambdas, or microservices that "front" the database with an auth layer and allow a limited range of queries to be executed). Another popular option for Neo4j is to expose a GraphQL Layer (Open Source GraphQL Library | Open GraphQL API Library | Neo4j) which the serverless web apps then use, it's pretty convenient and quite flexible.

Under the covers, the way the GraphQL layer works is that it manages Neo4j driver instances, which have connection pools. Because all databases do have a certain number of connections they're limited to, those intermediate layers (whether it's a lambda or a graphql layer, or a REST API or whatever else) have to choose to either slow down requests or spam the database. Throttling requests is the better choice.

This isn't too much of a concern though if you're using Aura Pro. By default those instances are backed by clusters, and for a decent instance size, many many thousands of concurrent read requests at the same time should be fine. These typically go pretty fast too because (for the right instance size) a lot of data is hot cached in memory. One of the things that alleviates the connection limits in a graph database is faster response times (meaning fewer connections tied up for less time, and less of a "traffic jam") -- compare that to doing complex expensive joins on another database, where connections have to work harder, longer.