Like with many software engineering tools, Neo4j, too, has its sweet spot use cases--specific types of uses where the tool really shines and adds a lot of value to your process. Many tools can do many things, and so can Neo4j, but only a few things can be done really well by a certain tool. We have already addressed some of this in the previous chapter. However, to summarize specifically for the Neo4j database management system, I believe that there are two particular types of cases, featuring two specific types of database queries, where the tool really excels.
Sweet spot use cases of Neo4j
Complex join-intensive queries
We discussed in the previous chapter how relational database management systems suffer from significant...