The whole db is saved in that moment. There is no builtin possibility to save only one node or edge (one could write a nice WAL). Think of it as a checkpointing/savegame like behavior.
Whatever you do: don't use it as your primary store… most of my customers use some persistent database and extract graphs + insert them into F8 to have maximum performance for real time analytics (that is it's sweet spot). They are also doing updates and it works quite well (atomic writes are guaranteed)
Cheers, Henning.