I checked all the links but didn't find any source? I suspect a lot of slowness is round-trips to mysql. In postgresql you can e.g. do "with recursive" queries

I checked all the links but didn't find any source? I suspect a lot of slowness is round-trips to mysql. In postgresql you can e.g. do "with recursive" queries to query simple graphs like your example, avoiding the round trips. Their cypher [1] query language may be a much better selling point. [1] http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/milestone/cypher-query-lang.html http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/milestone/cypher-query-lang.ht...