5 Limitations of Neo4j you should be aware of?

Neo4j provides many benefits, but it has a few limitations as well, some of them are:-

The Neo4j database is not entirely open-source. Many functionalities are only available in the enterprise version.

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It is very difficult to shard a densely connected graph in Neo4j.

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Neo4j has an upper bound limit for the graph size which might be not enough for large graphs.

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Neo4j does not have direct support for date data.

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Learning and implementing Neo4j will take time as there are many new concepts that a user needs to learn.

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