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RDBMS are now the de-facto industry standard and they shine in calculations through BIG arrays of data packed into rectangular tables (consider mega- hyper-Excel on steroids). But neither real world nor business logic is rectangular by their nature. The World consists of flexible structures like lists, like trees (be it a plant, or organisational structure, or tree of possible decisions), like networks and lace, or - what a horror! - like fractals. RDBMS, with its tabular rectangular nature, is able to emulate these with its tables - but it requires deep and complex programmatical magic, which also involve complexity, computational and human resources, and... software errors.
Being a native graph database, Neo4j allows you to reflect complex real-world graph structures of entities and their relationships in an easy and natural way, close to 1:1 mapping - and thus, avoid bulky emulation of ethereal spiderweb structures with heavy rectangular bricks made of SQL. This allows you to make your systems faster, more responsive and smarter - because they reflect the reality better. Also, graph data model is much agiler than relational and tolerates many real-world conditions which RDBMS can not.
Using Neo4j since 2013 I confirm all the above myself. It is perfectly suitable for being a kernel for enterprise Master Data Management, integrating different business systems around it. Neo4j is perfectly suitable for modern microservice architectures of enterprise solutions, this technology is also native to it.
And the price-performance ratio is impressive. Neo4j is very, very fast, and (with Enterprise license) it smoothly scales horizontally (you also get HA as a bonus). Databases scaling a billion of nodes and several billions of relationships are perfectly realizable (I personally have used a database of about 200 million nodes and Neo4j scale extremely well - it's performance does not depend on the size of the database, only diameter of the graph really matters).
What captivated me the most is how easy and natural graph technology allows you model complex realities and discover non-obvious interconnections and relationships between the entities, together with hidden patterns of facts. OLAP cubes too are graph structures. after all.
Technology is new - but the learning curve is not too steep, as soon as you catch up with this new, different graph attitude. Also online support from the community and directly from Neo4j team members makes learning Neo4j a fascinating and pleasant experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Neo4j is industrial grade, commercial quality product. But it is at the stage of rapid development just now, upcoming version 3.0.0 promises new features and performance boosts. Also the graph query language - Cypher - is under extensive development, new "sugar" is being added to it together with performance enhancements. So it may be hard to choose which version to take for you project - more mature with fewer features, or the newest and powerful, but not proven bullet-proof yet?
Anyway, I can not call it a disadvantage, you just need to think two steps ahead, not one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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the cypher syntax of neo4j is really great for beginners, it is as similar as human communicating with db in english langauage. it's just that we have to express in a correct manner for e.g if i want to retrieve all the persons with a gender male it's cypher syntax will be
Match (p: Person { Gender:"Male"} ) return p )
Neo4j's Browser and Bloom feature gives business stakeholder and data scientist/analyst to analyze their data which i think currently no other database give at this moment
and on top of that they have their own graph data science library which gives feasibility in developing application such as link prediction, recommendation system, chatbots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think they should add more compute storage for Aura DB, as our system can load 100s of GB data in neo4j , but currently i dont see any option for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have been using neo4j from last 6 month everyday for developing machine learning and data analysis products. it is really faster than RDBMS and helps in developing products such as market basket analysis, community detection and also for generative ai solutions for creating owr own chatbots. Learning neo4j is quite easy due to its documentation and community support available, It has support for multiple languages such as python, java etc. i personally use neo4j python library because it helps me in integrating with my existing machine learning product. I think every data science professional should be aware of neo4j and its power to create a scalable ML products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
one thing i think which needs to be improved is adding more sql like features in CYPHER query Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ease of creating graph and graph visualisation using neo4j platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The neo4j graph query language is tough for first timer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Cypher language allows you to construct queries that are understandable even without technical expertise.
Open source and community edition that can be self-hosted.
Neo4j Browser to visualize graph data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
For a self-hosted solution, the update process is not always straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The best thing about Neo4j is it is graph database and it has nodes and relationship which makes it simple. It is easy to use. And also it is schema free. Index-free adjacency helps a lot when the data is very complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cypher language is specific to Neo4j only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Neo4j is a great platform for the new user to learn the commands it is very interesting, and we can see the command along with its results. we can see the result in multiple ways like in graph format, table, text or code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I do not have much dislike about this platform but this is little confusing for the new user because it is little complicated for installation and initiate the commands. User may require the instruction for installation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is open source, has an active community behind. Well documented. You can self host it.
The GUI, called Neo4j Browser, it's very good tool to visualize the data.
Quite flexible, and some fast methods, in order to import graph data into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the own query language, called cypher, it's a little bit obscure and hard to type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is opensourced graph database.
Semi structred data can easily represented and easily get retrive connected data faster.
Scalable architecture.
It helps to maintain the predictability of relation based queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No security for data and No data encryption.
There is limit in the graph size like per graph it supports 10 B of nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It allows storing data with complex relationships, which can be represented suitably, making querying easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's primary use is free, but advanced features seem too costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Neo4j is the most interactive and easy to use or query tool I have ever worked with. The cyphers are so user-friendly that someone with no knowledge of programming or query languages can get started at any moment which gives us an edge to explain the BI analysis and parameters to our customers. Visualizations help you debug and resolve the issues way faster compared to other DBs. And their integration with most cloud services allows a smooth integration in our applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing that comes to my mind right now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
