What is neo4j good for?

For the simple friends of friends query, Neo4j is 60% faster than MySQL. For friends of friends of friends, Neo is 180 times faster. And for the depth four query, Neo4j is 1,135 times faster.

Information has always been served in tabular forms majorly due to the early requirements of the banking industry. Soon, spreadsheets became a tool to assess an employee's subjective productivity. Turn the page, and Neo4j re-wires the way brains consider data. We know we prefer connecting the dots more than relying on just the numbers presented to us. That's where Neo4j comes into the picture - through nodes and tags you are able to get a numeric-performance included 360-degree picture of the topic / person / object of research. That happens after a 1-time setup (like law enforcement would feed all available citizen data to quickly scan and grab all possible records for a new criminal - in a jiffy!)