Neo4j Blog: Recap: Intro to Graph Databases | Webinar Series #1.

 Neo4j is a high-performance graph engine with all the features of a mature and robust database.

There are a number of reasons to consider graph databases important — In this webinar Emil Eifrém gives a great presentation on the benefits that graph databases can provide for complex data.

I’ve been researching Graph Theory over the past couple months and Neo4j appears to have hit a sweet spot for operating on graphs.  Specifically, there are a class of problems that are exceedingly difficult to compute in a timely fashion on a relational database.