Is Neo4J good for storing images and text files?

[Mahesh Lal]

Hi,

As of 1.5 - 1.6 I remember that storing images or text files in Neo4J was not considered to be optimum.

Are there any improvements in 1.8 that would make it optimal to store images and/or text?

Or should I opt for some document database like MongoDB/Couch for storing text/Images and use Neo4J as a primary database for defining data and relations between them?


Thanks.
Mahesh Lal

[Michael Hunger]

It is still not the sweetspot of a graphdatabase to store big binary data.

So we recommend to store these things elsewhere (kv-store, s3, filesystem) and put only a link to the place into Neo4j.

Cheers

Michael