View the Benchmark Results

Key Benchmark Takeaways

Get mission-critical performance even under extreme workloads, with response times staying under 140ms at p99, while competitors struggle with multi-second latencies. Reduce infrastructure costs and improve user experience with FalkorDB's superior performance profile, requiring fewer resources to handle peak workloads.

Percentile	FalkorDB (ms)	Neo4j (ms)	Performance Difference
p50 (median)	55.0	577.5	10.5x faster
p90	108.0	4784.1	44.3x faster
p99	136.2	46923.8	344.5x faster

About the benchmarks

This benchmark provides comprehensive performance comparisons between FalkorDB and Neo4j graph databases. This benchmark specifically focuses on aggregate expansion operations, a common workload in graph database applications. The results indicate FalkorDB's particular strength in maintaining consistent performance under varying workload conditions, especially crucial for production environments where predictable response times are essential.

System Requirements

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu
• Redis server
• build-essential, cmake, m4, automake
• libtool, autoconf, python3
• libomp-dev, libssl-dev
• pkg-config
• Rust toolchain
• SDKman
• unzip, zip

Installation Steps

install redis server

sudo apt-get install lsb-release curl gpg
curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install redis

• stop the redis server sudo systemctl stop redis-server
• disable the redis server sudo systemctl disable redis-server
• check the redis server status sudo systemctl status redis-server

install sdkman

• install unzip sudo apt install unzip zip -y
• curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
• load sdkman in the current shell source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"

build falkordb from source

• git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB.git
• sudo apt install build-essential cmake m4 automake libtool autoconf python3 libomp-dev libssl-dev
• install rust curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
• from FalkorDB root dir run make

build the benchmark from source

from ~/

• install pkg-config sudo apt install pkg-config -y
• git clone [email protected]:FalkorDB/benchmark.git
• cd benchmark
• sdk env install
• download and unpack neo4j ./scripts/download-neo4j.sh
• build the benchmark cargo build --release
• enable autocomplete source <(./target/release/benchmark generate-auto-complete bash)
• copy the falkor shared lib to cp ~/FalkorDB/bin/linux-x64-release/src/falkordb.so .

run the benchmark

init the databases

• ./target/release/benchmark init --vendor falkor -s small
• ./target/release/benchmark init --vendor neo4j -s small

run the benchmarks

• ./target/release/benchmark run --vendor falkor -ssmall -q100000
• ./target/release/benchmark run --vendor neo4j -ssmall -q100000

comparing the results

• mkdir -p html
• ./target/release/benchmark compare falkor-metrics_small_q100000.json neo4j-metrics_small_q100000.json

Data

The data is based on https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wolfram77/graphs-snap-soc-pokec licensed: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

FAQ

System Requirements

Q: What are the minimum system requirements?
A: FalkorDB requires a Linux/Unix system with 4GB RAM minimum. For production environments, 16GB RAM is recommended.

Installation & Setup

Q: Can I run FalkorDB without Redis?
A: No, FalkorDB requires Redis 6.2 or higher as it operates as a Redis module.

Development

Q: Which query language does FalkorDB use?
A: FalkorDB uses the Cypher query language, similar to Neo4j, making migration straightforward.

Data Management

Q: Does FalkorDB support data persistence?
A: Yes, through Redis persistence mechanisms (RDB/AOF). Additional persistence options are in development.

Integration

Q: Does FalkorDB support common programming languages?
A: Yes, through FalkorDB has set of clients in all these programming langauges and more see official clients

Production Use

Q: Is FalkorDB production-ready?
A: Yes, FalkorDB is stable for production use, being a continuation of the battle-tested RedisGraph codebase.

Troubleshooting

Q: What should I do if I get "libgomp.so.1: cannot open shared object file"?
A: Install OpenMP:

• Ubuntu: apt-get install libgomp1
• RHEL/CentOS: yum install libgomp
• OSX: brew install libomp

Migration

Q: Can I migrate from Neo4j to FalkorDB?
A: Yes, FalkorDB supports the Cypher query language, making migration from Neo4j straightforward. Migration tools are in development.