Neo4j
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
2warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Jul 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you are better off just using JOINs or switch to Neo4j for your graph workloads.”
“Our stack is awesome:”
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“Neo4j, Postgres, Redis, K8s”
“Neo4j - when you need scale”
“Our stack is awesome: Vercel, Supabase, Neo4j, Langchain, Expo”
Caveats and dissent
“Neo4j’s record-oriented model performs reasonably for short traversals but degrades sharply on long paths”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025) 2 mentions
- Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion 1 mention
- YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database 1 mention
- How Memgraph 3.11 Simplifies Multi-Tenancy for Cross-Database Graph Workloads 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) 1 mention
- Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync) 1 mention
Data: neo4j.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 21
“benchmarks vs neo4j, memgraph, kuzu, etc”
“load them into a Neo4j database (via Cypher queries)”
Memgraph's CTO here, thanks for the feedback under Memgraph's implementation of multi-tenancy each database is isolated, meaning that vector search indices are also isolated per database (each db has it's own set of vector indices) the same limitations apply as to multi-tenancy or vector search (e.g. multitenancy includes some kind of routing, but that's minimal overhead because database is picked per session; import
“Neo4j”
“you are better off just using JOINs or switch to Neo4j for your graph workloads.”
“Developed a real-time data pipeline with Kafka + Neo4j”
“I guessed that neo4j gets this question a lot”
“building a full graph of each component in Neo4j”
“Optional Neo4j adds a knowledge graph”
“Neo4j, Postgres, Redis, K8s”
“Our stack is awesome:”
“Neo4j’s record-oriented model performs reasonably for short traversals but degrades sharply on long paths”
“the Neo4j-based graph behind personalization”
“created a 3D Neo4J visualizer tool for YC advice + my quotes collection”
“Neo4j”
“Design, build, and operate the Neo4j-based graph behind personalization, discovery, and monetization.”
“Neo4j, Postgres, Redis, K8s”
“Stack includes Golang, Neo4j, AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, DynamoDB), GraphQL, Typescript/React”
“Neo4j - when you need scale”
“it seems like Neo4j should be able to support 1 trillion edges”
“Our stack is awesome: Vercel, Supabase, Neo4j, Langchain, Expo”