With Benchmarking, we can compare our Neo4j process and performance metrics with stats from other players in the industry. It is a method to measure the quality, time, and cost of implementing a solution in a production scenario. It is also a useful measure to constantly evaluate your needs and the current system metrics to analyze when a change might be required to hardware or software tools.

Response time metrics from Gatling

Although the Neo4j dashboard gives a good idea of the database state and metrics, you can use Gatling, a load testing framework based on Scala, Netty, and Akka that can test your whole application to measure end-to-end performance. The only challenge of this tool is that you need to write your code in Scala. You can use the built-in HTTP library to send requests to the REST server and evaluate the response and create simulations in real time to measure performance. You can learn about Gatling in detail at http://gatling.io/. Gatling...