Clustering

Enterprise Edition

This chapter describes the following:

• Introduction — An overview of the clustering architecture.

• Setting up a cluster — The basics of configuring and deploying a new cluster.

  • Deploy a basic cluster — How to set up a basic cluster.

  • Deploy an analytics cluster — How to deploy a special case Neo4j cluster for analytic queries.

  • Move from a standalone deployment to a cluster — This section describes how to move from a single Neo4j server to Neo4j cluster.

  • Reconciler — An internal component that observes the requested state of a server and makes changes to the server to match that state.

  • Cluster server discovery — How servers in a cluster discover each other and form a cluster.

  • Leadership, routing and load balancing — Election of leaders, routing and load balancing.

  • Intra-cluster encryption — How to secure the cluster communication.

• Managing servers in a cluster — How to manage the servers in a cluster.

• Unbind a server — How to remove and archive the cluster state of a cluster server so that it can rebind to a cluster.

• Managing databases in a cluster — How to manage the databases in a cluster.

• Unbind the system database — How to remove and archive the cluster state for the system database.

• Monitoring — Monitoring of a cluster.

  • Monitor servers — The tools available for monitoring the servers in a cluster.

  • Monitor databases — The tools available for monitoring the databases in a cluster.

  • Monitor cluster endpoints for status information — The endpoints and semantics of endpoints used to monitor the health of the cluster.

  • Monitor replication status — The procedure to monitor which members of a clustered database are up-to-date and can participate in a successful replication.

• Resilient cluster deployment — Recommendations and guidance on how to set up a resilient cluster which ensures your database stays available, fast, and recoverable even under failures.

  • Designing a resilient multi-data center cluster — Recommended patterns of cluster deployment across multiple cloud regions / data centers.

  • Multi-data center routing — Clusters on multi-data centers.

  • Disaster recovery — How to recover a cluster in the event of a disaster.

• Settings reference — A summary of the most important cluster settings.

• Server commands reference — Reference of Cypher administrative commands to add and manage servers.

• Clustering glossary — A glossary of terms related to the Neo4j clustering.