# Recommendations about modeling, indexing and quering spatio-temporal data

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/recommendations-about-modeling-indexing-and-quering-spatio-temporal-data/8877>\
**Category:** GeoSpatial & Location-Based Data\
**Tags:** apoc, performance, neo4j-spatial, cypher, index\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/recommendations-about-modeling-indexing-and-quering-spatio-temporal-data/8877 "2019-07-17T20:30:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/recommendations-about-modeling-indexing-and-quering-spatio-temporal-data/8877/1 "2019-07-17T20:30:51Z")

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1. What is the difference between the Neo4j Spatial and Neo4j built in spatial?
2. Which are the indexes that are used in Neo4j Spatial and neo4j built in spatial and which one is faster?