CHCharlieDigital·Jun 1, 2026
> ...add something like apache AGE, but arguably that is also a small ecosystem (at least IMHO as I never heard it until I actually started looking for Neo4J alternatives)
Outside of the most trivial use cases, I've found that AGE will not get anywhere near Neo4j in terms of performance and there's a lot of edge cases that just flat out won't work. The interesting types of queries you'd want to do in the graph end up being quite limited in AGE openCypher; I could not write very complex Cypher that would otherwise work well in Neo4j.
I appreciate having the option, but for most use cases on Pg, you are better off just using JOINs or switch to Neo4j for your graph workloads. I switched some workloads back to using different approaches of approximating "connectedness" in Pg (e.g. using Jaccard similarity)
If you do go down this route, the
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easiest way to get coding agents to figure out AGE is actually their regressions SQL tests: https://github.com/apache/age/tree/master/regress/sql
This has a lot of examples for the agent to know what will/won't work with AGE versus Neo4j Cypher.