neostore.* file size after deleting millions node

Question

I use neo4j 1.9.4, i store 28M nodes, 267M properties and 157M relationships.

the neostore.* files :

-rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 10961964959 7 fév 09:58 ne

Answer 1

Actually the nodestore is not instantly compacted after you delete nodes. Instead if you create new nodes they will reclaim the previously deleted ares with in nodestore.