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Traversing "friends-of-friends" becomes a single parallelized operation (

While traditional Graph DBs "chase pointers" node-by-node (sequential and slow), FalkorDB treats your graph as a sparse matrix .

A new open-source player, , just dropped a bombshell: it’s 496x faster than Neo4j.

It processes thousands of paths at the same time instead of hopping through memory.

Uses "pointer chasing" to traverse nodes and edges. Each hop requires a separate memory lookup, which slows down significantly as the network grows.