Eifrem: Neo4j is frequently 1,000 times faster for connected data queries
Emil Eifrem · Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Feb 7, 2022 · at 5:50
Emil Eifrem is the Co-Founder and CEO of Neo4j. He discusses why Neo4j built a native graph database architecture from scratch rather than building on top of existing databases.
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“We've optimized every layer in the stack of the database architecture completely around connected data. We're not built on top of a different database or anything. It's a native architecture. And that means that if you want to query along how things are connecting, if you want to find patterns in that, we are frequently not 50% faster or a hundred percent faster, we're a thousand times faster.”
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