Anyone use graph db in production/at scale? Like Neo4j or Arangodb?

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Please share any experiences. I'm specifically evaluating Neo4j and my sandbox testing is going well so far but I'm curious to hear from people who have far more experience.FWIW I have a graph use case implemented with pg where I'm running into issues with recursive queries, whereas the neo4j queries are far better performant and easier to reason.

goralph · Accepted Answer

Without knowing the specifics of your data model I'd wager what you have is a data modelling problem not a graph problem. Maybe start with that?There's a reason these graph DBs are esoteric. They're fun & cool to use but there's not a lot of problems they can solve better than a relational DB.

throwaway38375 · Answer

Worked at a place where the lead engineer was adamant a graph database was the solution. After two years of trying to get it launched, the project failed spectacularly.Another team got given the rewrite and build it in six months using MySQL.

cpach · Answer

Out of curiosity, what&rsquo;s your problem domain?

Anyone use graph db in production/at scale? Like Neo4j or Arangodb?

Without knowing the specifics of your data model I'd wager what you have is a data modelling problem not a graph problem. Maybe start with that?
There's a reason these graph DBs are esoteric. They're fun & cool to use but there's not a lot of problems they can solve better than a relational DB.

Worked at a place where the lead engineer was adamant a graph database was the solution. After two years of trying to get it launched, the project failed spectacularly.
Another team got given the rewrite and build it in six months using MySQL.

Out of curiosity, what’s your problem domain?