# \#performance **URL:** https://community.neo4j.com/tag/performance/38.md [Latest](https://community.neo4j.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.neo4j.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.neo4j.com/tags.md) --- ## [Index on datetime field in version \>=5](https://community.neo4j.com/t/index-on-datetime-field-in-version-5/81293)
**Author:** [@BairDev](https://community.neo4j.com/u/BairDev)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/index-on-datetime-field-in-version-5/81293 "2026-10-02T18:47:39Z")
There is a pretty old (2022) topic on this issue: Best way to index a datetime field Considering the new index types (range index instead of BTREE index) from version \>= 5 on and the very brief documentation (Temporal v… --- ## [AuraDB Free Tier Stuck Updating](https://community.neo4j.com/t/auradb-free-tier-stuck-updating/80175)
**Author:** [@0xfinney](https://community.neo4j.com/u/0xfinney)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2026, 4:34am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/auradb-free-tier-stuck-updating/80175 "2026-09-24T04:34:12Z")
My AuraDB Free tier has been stuck with a status of "updating" based on the outage on 7/23/2026. https://status.neo4j.io/ Their latest update "Update - We are continuing to monitor for any further issues Jul 23, 2026 - … --- ## [Can't take Neo4j Certified Professional Certification (Query Window doesn't work)](https://community.neo4j.com/t/cant-take-neo4j-certified-professional-certification-query-window-doesnt-work/79833)
**Author:** [@sbuchadi](https://community.neo4j.com/u/sbuchadi)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/cant-take-neo4j-certified-professional-certification-query-window-doesnt-work/79833 "2026-08-19T16:12:44Z")
Hi Everyone, I have wanted to take the Neo4j Certified Professonal Certifications from past 2 weeks but can't take it due to heavy issues and problems in GraphAcademy website. The Query Window is not working at all from… --- ## [Neo4j Idle Memory Usage](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-idle-memory-usage/80624)
**Author:** [@naveh](https://community.neo4j.com/u/naveh)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2026, 11:13am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-idle-memory-usage/80624 "2026-08-13T11:13:36Z")
Hello, I'm using neo4j version 2026.01.4 enterprise edition (cypher version 5.25). I noticed that when my system is fully idle and the Neo4j database is supposed to have minimal load (if not 0 - only internal processes… --- ## [Entity duplication when building a Neo4j GraphRAG pipeline, how do you handle it?](https://community.neo4j.com/t/entity-duplication-when-building-a-neo4j-graphrag-pipeline-how-do-you-handle-it/80570)
**Author:** [@jules.gaydonat](https://community.neo4j.com/u/jules.gaydonat)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/entity-duplication-when-building-a-neo4j-graphrag-pipeline-how-do-you-handle-it/80570 "2026-08-09T22:16:34Z")
Hi all, I've been building GraphRAG pipelines with Neo4j and I keep hitting the same wall: entity duplication at the ingestion step. The extractor (LangChain or LlamaIndex) has no memory of which mentions are the same n… --- ## [Optimising the cypher query](https://community.neo4j.com/t/optimising-the-cypher-query/76517)
**Author:** [@anshulchaintha7](https://community.neo4j.com/u/anshulchaintha7)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 21, 2026, 10:49am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/optimising-the-cypher-query/76517 "2026-05-21T10:49:14Z")
I have a query that fetches that the information from a specific traversal path. It builds a path in a specific format by fetching tag from each node in this manner A/b/c/d Okay now the query is working well on neo4j b… --- ## [Neo4j Cluster 3 Primaries, 2 Secondaries in AWS EC2 Windows](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-cluster-3-primaries-2-secondaries-in-aws-ec2-windows/77124)
**Author:** [@greg.parkin](https://community.neo4j.com/u/greg.parkin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-cluster-3-primaries-2-secondaries-in-aws-ec2-windows/77124 "2026-04-09T18:36:51Z")
Our application loads 100+ records and then does a read to verify the information has been loaded. When this happens the data will not read it back. It appears that the data hasn’t been replicated to the other nodes in o… --- ## [Vector search index pre-filtered query](https://community.neo4j.com/t/vector-search-index-pre-filtered-query/64465)
**Author:** [@luc](https://community.neo4j.com/u/luc)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2026, 10:47am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/vector-search-index-pre-filtered-query/64465 "2026-04-09T10:47:56Z")
Hi everyone, I have a graph mixing structured and unstructured data, i.e. structured nodes and relationships used as actual database, connected to nodes containing plain-text Documents. These Document nodes are embedde… --- ## [How to get accurate retrieval process with less latency with huge network in neo4j?](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-get-accurate-retrieval-process-with-less-latency-with-huge-network-in-neo4j/76231)
**Author:** [@kumarkoushik0805](https://community.neo4j.com/u/kumarkoushik0805)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-to-get-accurate-retrieval-process-with-less-latency-with-huge-network-in-neo4j/76231 "2026-03-12T21:05:17Z")
Hi all, I have a doubt, is there a way where I have a huge knowledge graph network in neo4j ( some 100GB) and how to scale up the GraphRAG to retrieve relevant accurate information with lesser latency? --- ## [Glowroot for neo4j](https://community.neo4j.com/t/glowroot-for-neo4j/76639)
**Author:** [@mdelambilly](https://community.neo4j.com/u/mdelambilly)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2026, 8:46am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/glowroot-for-neo4j/76639 "2026-02-24T08:46:40Z")
Hello, How to configure glowroot instrumentalisation for neo4J ? Thanks, Michel --- ## [Problems about neo4j-community-4.1.3 running on arm](https://community.neo4j.com/t/problems-about-neo4j-community-4-1-3-running-on-arm/76276)
**Author:** [@1171333070](https://community.neo4j.com/u/1171333070)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/problems-about-neo4j-community-4-1-3-running-on-arm/76276 "2026-01-15T16:02:34Z")
Server Environment: Operating System: Kylin V10 CPU Type: ARM CPU Cores: 16 Memory: 64 GB Neo4j Version: neo4j-community-4.1.3 JDK Version: openjdk-11.0.21 Case 1: When configured as: "dbms.memory.heap.initial\_s… --- ## [Multi databases scaling with AuraDB](https://community.neo4j.com/t/multi-databases-scaling-with-auradb/76260)
**Author:** [@symeon1](https://community.neo4j.com/u/symeon1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/multi-databases-scaling-with-auradb/76260 "2026-01-13T12:19:58Z")
Hello, We are currently moving out of PostgreSQL to AuraDB as we have a good part of the data model of our Saas platform that are represented as graphs. Those data are logically well segregated by “dataroom”: queries a… --- ## [Efficient Search Across Elasticsearch and Neo4j Without Pulling Large Result Sets](https://community.neo4j.com/t/efficient-search-across-elasticsearch-and-neo4j-without-pulling-large-result-sets/76179)
**Author:** [@brryo6801](https://community.neo4j.com/u/brryo6801)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/efficient-search-across-elasticsearch-and-neo4j-without-pulling-large-result-sets/76179 "2025-12-31T14:49:56Z")
i got : Elasticsearch stores most of the searchable / document-like data (text fields, city, etc.) Neo4j stores relationships and some entity attributes (e.g., gender, graph connections) Each entity exists in bo… --- ## [Security of Neo4j databases are ensured](https://community.neo4j.com/t/security-of-neo4j-databases-are-ensured/76175)
**Author:** [@starlinmini45](https://community.neo4j.com/u/starlinmini45)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/security-of-neo4j-databases-are-ensured/76175 "2025-12-28T08:46:05Z")
How Neo4j ensures the privacy of database? --- ## [Nodes related to same nodes causing idempotence problems – Spring data Neo4j 7.4.7](https://community.neo4j.com/t/nodes-related-to-same-nodes-causing-idempotence-problems-spring-data-neo4j-7-4-7/75455)
**Author:** [@eferre](https://community.neo4j.com/u/eferre)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/nodes-related-to-same-nodes-causing-idempotence-problems-spring-data-neo4j-7-4-7/75455 "2025-12-05T16:14:11Z")
Hello ! I am writing this topic because my team and I are encountering an issue during the use of Spring Data Neo4j 7.4.7. Here is some context to explain the issue. We have a node labeled Person : @Getter @NoArgsCo… --- ## [Neo4j Performance on an ARM64v8 System](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-performance-on-an-arm64v8-system/75984)
**Author:** [@tdpark-wx](https://community.neo4j.com/u/tdpark-wx)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-performance-on-an-arm64v8-system/75984 "2025-12-01T23:01:20Z")
Hello, I’ve been doing some hands-on research into databases to be used for embedded development at our company. Target system has an ARM64v8 architecture. Neo4j was the first database I tested. With ~2600 entries/calls… --- ## [LookInsight AI: Zero-Hallucination Email Automation Powered by Neo4j Knowledge Graphs](https://community.neo4j.com/t/lookinsight-ai-zero-hallucination-email-automation-powered-by-neo4j-knowledge-graphs/75954)
**Author:** [@hello1](https://community.neo4j.com/u/hello1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/lookinsight-ai-zero-hallucination-email-automation-powered-by-neo4j-knowledge-graphs/75954 "2025-11-22T04:26:14Z")
Hey Neo4j Community! :waving\_hand: Just launched LookInsight AI - an email automation platform that uses Neo4j knowledge graphs to eliminate AI hallucinations. :link: Live Demo: https://lookinsight.ai The Problem LLM… --- ## [Efficiently projecting large number of nodes with GDS](https://community.neo4j.com/t/efficiently-projecting-large-number-of-nodes-with-gds/75923)
**Author:** [@mranand4](https://community.neo4j.com/u/mranand4)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/efficiently-projecting-large-number-of-nodes-with-gds/75923 "2025-11-21T09:06:28Z")
So, my graph is modeled for retail transactions and it's fairly large - 250M nodes. Nodes in my graph are bidirectionally connected and are as follows: Customer (Has an outgoing edge to Transaction, Has an incoming edg… --- ## [Graphacademy Sandbox Considered Insecure, blocked by browser](https://community.neo4j.com/t/graphacademy-sandbox-considered-insecure-blocked-by-browser/75937)
**Author:** [@pricekr1221](https://community.neo4j.com/u/pricekr1221)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/graphacademy-sandbox-considered-insecure-blocked-by-browser/75937 "2025-11-20T08:09:14Z")
I am completely unable to use the sandbox environment while taking the Graphacademy courses. My browser considers the inline connection to the sandbox as insecure. At one point I was able to get around this by opening th… --- ## [Xemantic-neo4j-kotlin-driver-1.0.0 released](https://community.neo4j.com/t/xemantic-neo4j-kotlin-driver-1-0-0-released/75897)
**Author:** [@morisil](https://community.neo4j.com/u/morisil)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/xemantic-neo4j-kotlin-driver-1-0-0-released/75897 "2025-11-17T07:56:00Z")
Dear Community, Xemantic just released xemantic-neo4j-kotlin-driver-1.0.0 It allows to build Neo4j based apps and APIs with structured concurrency offered by Kotlin coroutines, with minimal boilerplate and maximal pe… --- ## [2nd degree relations lookup seems very slow. Can I improve it somehow?](https://community.neo4j.com/t/2nd-degree-relations-lookup-seems-very-slow-can-i-improve-it-somehow/74167)
**Author:** [@mike.kurzeja](https://community.neo4j.com/u/mike.kurzeja)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 24, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/2nd-degree-relations-lookup-seems-very-slow-can-i-improve-it-somehow/74167 "2025-10-24T23:47:29Z")
Hi, I'm using Neo4j to store relations between 3 entities: USER, PROFILE, COMPANY. Here is my schema: (:USER)-\[:CONNECTED\_WITH\]-\>(:PROFILE) (:PROFILE)-\[:WORKED\_AT\]-\>(:COMPANY) (:PROFILE)-\[:CURRENTLY\_WORKS\_AT\]-\>(:COMP… --- ## [Persistent memory leak and intermittent write timeouts in a Neo4j 5.x Kubernetes cluster, unresolved by standard JVM monitoring or config tuning](https://community.neo4j.com/t/persistent-memory-leak-and-intermittent-write-timeouts-in-a-neo4j-5-x-kubernetes-cluster-unresolved-by-standard-jvm-monitoring-or-config-tuning/75516)
**Author:** [@shubham030](https://community.neo4j.com/u/shubham030)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/persistent-memory-leak-and-intermittent-write-timeouts-in-a-neo4j-5-x-kubernetes-cluster-unresolved-by-standard-jvm-monitoring-or-config-tuning/75516 "2025-09-25T10:41:29Z")
We're experiencing a persistent memory leak in our Neo4j cluster (currently 5.26.0, also tested with 2026.06.2) running in Kubernetes pods. Pod memory continuously climbs until it hits critical levels - at which point we… --- ## [Neo4j Timeout error](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-timeout-error/75497)
**Author:** [@prajwalv03](https://community.neo4j.com/u/prajwalv03)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2025, 11:11am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-timeout-error/75497 "2025-09-24T11:11:19Z")
Hi all, I’m running Neo4j 5.x on Ubuntu (Jetstream2 cluster) and keep hitting timeout and disconnect errors when running long Cypher queries via cypher-shell. Example command: cypher-shell -a bolt://\:7687 -u … --- ## [How can I improvise insertion performance after adding :TTL label in my existing label?](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-can-i-improvise-insertion-performance-after-adding-ttl-label-in-my-existing-label/75473)
**Author:** [@shivangijaiswal19](https://community.neo4j.com/u/shivangijaiswal19)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/how-can-i-improvise-insertion-performance-after-adding-ttl-label-in-my-existing-label/75473 "2025-09-22T10:04:46Z")
I am using PySpark to insert data into Neo4j on a daily basis. I insert ~5Millions rows from a CSV. It was all working fine and the Job was getting finished in 30 minutes. Ever since I add TTL in the existing labels, I … --- ## [It’s about someone struggling with complex SQL queries on a project and discovering that Neo4j, a graph database, made the work much easier.](https://community.neo4j.com/t/it-s-about-someone-struggling-with-complex-sql-queries-on-a-project-and-discovering-that-neo4j-a-graph-database-made-the-work-much-easier/75481)
**Author:** [@arhamali1best](https://community.neo4j.com/u/arhamali1best)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/it-s-about-someone-struggling-with-complex-sql-queries-on-a-project-and-discovering-that-neo4j-a-graph-database-made-the-work-much-easier/75481 "2025-09-18T17:14:41Z")
Honestly, when I first heard about Neo4j, I kind of brushed it off. “Graph database?” sounded like some fancy buzzword to me—just another tool hyped up as the next big thing. I didn’t really buy it. Fast forward a few w… --- ## [Very high memory usage on neo4j cluster of 3 nodes](https://community.neo4j.com/t/very-high-memory-usage-on-neo4j-cluster-of-3-nodes/75288)
**Author:** [@vatsalpatel.me](https://community.neo4j.com/u/vatsalpatel.me)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/very-high-memory-usage-on-neo4j-cluster-of-3-nodes/75288 "2025-09-09T08:52:29Z")
Hey guys, We have a neo4j cluster of 3 nodes running on kubernetes. We self host neo4j enterprise on GKE with 1.5 vCPU and 7.5GB RAM. We have 3 primaries and 0 secondaries and are seeing very high memory usage on the wr… --- ## [Full schema counts filtered from perspective of a node](https://community.neo4j.com/t/full-schema-counts-filtered-from-perspective-of-a-node/75333)
**Author:** [@sonjar4ai](https://community.neo4j.com/u/sonjar4ai)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/full-schema-counts-filtered-from-perspective-of-a-node/75333 "2025-09-05T17:10:59Z")
Hi community! I am trying to return a query result (either cypher or apoc) which will return schema counts (nodes and relationships) based on the perspective of a specific node. I want to create a query that will return … --- ## [Change data capture performance](https://community.neo4j.com/t/change-data-capture-performance/75310)
**Author:** [@khushi8593](https://community.neo4j.com/u/khushi8593)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2025, 6:55am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/change-data-capture-performance/75310 "2025-09-03T06:55:19Z")
Looking for some in prod performance feedback of NEO CDC plugin for a setup with approx 20 billion data and ~200k changes a day --- ## [Deviation in the graph while generating kg](https://community.neo4j.com/t/deviation-in-the-graph-while-generating-kg/74866)
**Author:** [@quantum.10](https://community.neo4j.com/u/quantum.10)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 25, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/deviation-in-the-graph-while-generating-kg/74866 "2025-07-25T06:26:53Z")
I have user neo4j labs (aka) LLM graph builder and also used simple-KG-pipeline from graph academy. we have noticed that every time running, the deviation of the graph is varying for each run. --- Is there any option… --- ## [Anyone with experience with langchain-neo4j](https://community.neo4j.com/t/anyone-with-experience-with-langchain-neo4j/74790)
**Author:** [@jacob.barhak](https://community.neo4j.com/u/jacob.barhak)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 23, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/anyone-with-experience-with-langchain-neo4j/74790 "2025-07-23T21:50:10Z")
Greetings, New to this channel, and hope this is relevant. I am trying to use langchain-neo4j with a database that I converted into a graph - it was originally on mongo and I converted it to Neo4j. I tried using lang… [Next page](https://community.neo4j.com/tag/performance/38.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=performance)