title: Neo4j Drawbacks
body: <p>So I am putting together a report on Neo4j and it's potential advantages over your average relational database.  In my research, I've encountered a couple issues that might not make Neo4j the best choice at the present for a public server application. Namely:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Neo4j uses Apache Lucene, which treats all data as text.  This makes purely integer data queries much slower than they need to be.  </p></li>
  <li><p>Neo4j has no user management built in.  All security must be done at the application level.  </p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My question is whether my research is outdated and these issues have solutions.  I know that community and support for Neo4j and other graph databases is growing fast.  Anyone with knowledge on the current state of Neo4j could really help me out.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>