René’s title: “Get the full neo4j power by using the Core Java API for traversing your Graph data base instead of Cypher Query Language“, makes you appreciate why René’s day job is “computer scientist” and not “ad copy writer.” 😉
René compares working with Neo4j via:
- Java Core API
- Traverser Framework
- Cypher Query Language
And that is the order of their performance, from fastest to slowest:
- Java Core API – Order of magnitude faster than Cypher
- Traverser Framework – 25% slower than Java Core
- Cypher Query Language – Slowest
Order of magnitude improvements tend to attract the attention of commercial customers and those with non-trivial data sets.
That is if you need performance today, not someday.