--- title: Migrating Graph Operations to Apache AGE: From Writes to... description: A production engineering team at Trendyol shares their migration from Neo4j Enterprise to Apache AGE, a graph extension for PostgreSQL. Key decisions include... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/migrating-graph-operations-to-apache-age-from-writes-to-reads-hhy7mnjlm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Migrating Graph Operations to Apache AGE: From Writes to Reads | daily.dev og:description: A production engineering team at Trendyol shares their migration from Neo4j Enterprise to Apache AGE, a graph extension for PostgreSQL. Key decisions include... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/migrating-graph-operations-to-apache-age-from-writes-to-reads-hhy7mnjlm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Hhy7mnjLM.png og:image:alt: Migrating Graph Operations to Apache AGE: From Writes to Reads og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Migrating Graph Operations to Apache AGE: From Writes to Reads **[Trendyol Tech](https://daily.dev/sources/trendyoltech)** · 13 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A production engineering team at Trendyol shares their migration from Neo4j Enterprise to Apache AGE, a graph extension for PostgreSQL. Key decisions include consolidating multiple relationship types into a single discriminated HAS edge for simpler writes, using native SQL instead of Cypher for high-throughput writes, and replacing variable-length path queries (which bypass indexes in AGE and caused 3–5 second response times) with iterative fixed-depth traversals. Go goroutines parallelize multi-hop queries across intermediate nodes, and pointer-based map sets handle memory-efficient deduplication of overlapping results. The migration traded Neo4j's raw graph performance for PostgreSQL's operational advantages: unified infrastructure, CDC via logical replication, and predictable licensing costs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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