NEO4J Query and Data Output very slow - database

Question

I have a hardware Server (2x 6 CPU Intel e5, 128GB DDR3 RAM, NVM-SSDs)
Config in .config-files for RAM are:
dbms.memory.heap.initial_size=25g
dbms.memory.heap.max_size=25g
dbms.memory.pagecache.size=40g
dbms.memory.transaction.global_max_size=20g
I have a tree structure. For test purpose I genereated a Tree where each parent has 15 children with a depth of 4. (depth: 0=>15, 1=> 225, 2=>3.375, 3=>50k 4=>760k)
If I want to output a lot of nodes the query gets stuck.
Nodes are persons with a only a few attributes:
-id (from neo4j)
-status
-customerid
-level (depth of tree)
The Nodes are linked in two ways:
:UPLINE from deeper level pointing at root
:DOWNLINE from root to leaves
My Query for getting the tree:
MATCH p = (r:Person {VM:1})-[:DOWNLINE *]->(x)
RETURN DISTINCT nodes(p) AS Customer
LIMIT 5000
Started streaming 5000 records after 2 ms and completed after 42 ms, displaying first 1000 rows.
Displaying the data takes so long even for 5000 records. It takes like 30s to display the nodes or show them in a table.
For a test I created a tree structure in a MySQL and SQL-Server database with the schema:
ID--------ManagerID-------Status
1 ----------- [-] ----------- active
2 ------------ 1 ----------- active
...
15 ----------- 1 ----------- active
16 ----------- 2 ----------- inactive
17 ----------- 2 ----------- active
...
If I query that with CTE (recursive) I get faster times then on NEO4j.
Am I wrong thinking that NEO4j should be faster at this task?
Thank you for your help!