LightningDB vs Neo4j

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A few selected results show how quickly LightningDB retrieves information compared with Neo4j.

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Retrieval performance at a glance.

AI retrieval combines a similarity search with relationship queries to gather information for a model. The third result measures similarity search alone.

Selected retrieval benchmarks. LightningDB uses GPU acceleration; Neo4j Community runs on CPU. Lower times are faster.
Workload LightningDB GPU accelerated Neo4j Community CPU Faster by
AI retrieval: search and relationships Small-medium graph with 28,000 nodes 0.86 ms 9.27 ms 10.8×
AI retrieval: search and relationships Large graph with 2.5 million nodes 6.48 ms 12.12 ms 1.9×
Similarity search 250,000 vectors, 1,536 dimensions 9.48 ms 17.3 s 1,830×

Selected published retrieval times on the benchmark host with an NVIDIA L40S. Lower is faster. These times measure database retrieval, excluding the time an AI model takes to generate an answer. View the source data.

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