About the Compute Environment

The internal compute environment in Graph Studio allows you to run notebooks and accelerates analysis by running algorithms and queries parallelized in memory.

Graph Studio can attach to or detach from the internal compute environment automatically. This ensures efficient use of computing resources, thereby saving cost.

The attachment happens at the background when you load property graphs into memory and also implicitly when working with notebooks in Graph Studio. See About Implicit Environment Creation Through Notebooks for more information.

When not in use for a certain period of time, Graph Studio detaches itself from the compute environment. On detachment, any in-memory data stored in the environment is deleted.

Note:

The data deletion during the detachment process is only limited to in-memory copies of property graph data and transient analysis results like in-memory algorithms or query results. Graphs and notebooks (including input and generated output of paragraphs) remain persisted in your Autonomous Database and are available even in detached state.

Graph Studio automatically reconnects to the compute environment when you reload the property graph into memory or rerun your notebook from the top.

The status of the Compute Environment is indicated on the top right of the header.

The compute environment also allows you to configure your preferred memory settings for the graph server and the notebook interpreters. You can also choose to save the values as the default memory settings to be used for creating the Graph Studio environment.