What was the use case? I agree, a lot of stuff that is supposedly magic in graph dbs aren't that hard to do in SQL.
Re:Ask HN: What Is Going on with Neo4j?
by chillfox on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:59AM
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Nodes with specific properties within a certain number of connections from a specific node, only going through nodes with specific other properties, ordered in fewest connections to most.
I was looking for profitable trade routes in EVE Online.
So what would likely be nice is a better query language that can compile to sql.