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Memory Systems and the Graph That Wasn't: On Not Using Neo4j

October 28, 2025

What we actually ship in 8-Bit Oracle today: JSONB conversations, hexagram context, and Postgres views — plus why we didn't adopt Neo4j, MemMachine, or mem0 (yet).

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