Yes, it is true that the major performance gains are for a (commonly used) subset of what is possible in SQL. But you need to keep in mind that you don't have t

Yes, it is true that the major performance gains are for a (commonly used) subset of what is possible in SQL. But you need to keep in mind that you don't have to de-normalize or adopt some sort of design pattern in OrientDB for some use cases you would in SQL, instead you can just model your data.