Sizing guidelines

The following sizing guidelines provide a glimpse into what hardware and physical resource allocations are required at a high level. For a thorough analysis, please contact your GraphDB sales or support team to schedule a tuning analysis session.

Entry-level deployment

Low data volume & limited, simple queries:

  • 1-50 users;
  • Less than 25 simultaneous queries;
  • Simple queries;
  • Less than 100 million explicit statements (triples);
  • Less than 18 GB of data;
  • Offline (no real-time insert, update, delete and synchronisation);
  • Inferencing off.

Recommendations:

  • 1 master node (Intel Core i7);
  • 4 cores (CPUs);
  • 4-16 GB RAM;
  • 50 GB disk space (SSD w/SATA).

Mid-range deployment

Low data volume/limited, complex queries:

  • 50-100 users;
  • 25 – 50 simultaneous queries;
  • Simple & moderately complex queries;
  • Between 100 million and 1 billion explicit statements (triples);
  • Less than 175 GB of data;
  • Online (moderate real-time insert, update, delete and synchronisation).

Recommendations:

  • 2-4 master nodes (Intel Core i7);
  • 8-16 cores (CPUs) per master;
  • 8-32 GB RAM;
  • 50-100 GB disk space per node (SSD w/SATA).

Enterprise deployment

High data volume/extensive, complex queries

  • 100-500 users;
  • 50-100 simultaneous queries;
  • Simple & highly complex queries;
  • Between 1 & 50 billion explicit statements (triples);
  • Less than 8.5 terabytes;
  • Online (persistent real-time insert, update, delete and synchronisation).

Recommendations:

  • 4-8 master nodes (Intel Core i7);
  • 16-32 cores (CPUs) per master;
  • 32 + GB RAM;
  • 100-200 GB disk space per node (SSD w/SATA).