496x May 2026

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

496x faster alternative to Neo4j…(open-source) | Avi Chawla Uses "pointer chasing" to traverse nodes and edges

While traditional Graph DBs "chase pointers" node-by-node (sequential and slow), FalkorDB treats your graph as a sparse matrix . Uses "pointer chasing" to traverse nodes and edges

Traversing "friends-of-friends" becomes a single parallelized operation ( Uses "pointer chasing" to traverse nodes and edges