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Neo4j is a total solution space for me. Whereas some engineers use Excel to play with an idea, I feel Neo4j is superior tool for capturing reality and making modifications that ultimately result in a flexible working model. And then all operations can happen on the data in-place. So for a hackathon it`s a total cheat to start with Neo4j as a foundation. But equally, Neo4j has changed the way I think and has opened my mind to what is possible, and that`s because when you have the fundamental building blocks of nodes & edges, the sky is the limit. Oh, and cypher. It`s basically python in a database--really expressive, and powerful and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Okay, this isn`t really a dislike. It`s more a wish. I want it to be even easier for me to build simple web apps...just a javascript front end...no middle layer...but I would wish for a user authentication + authorization layer. So often I want to show something like an interactive chart, custom designed and publishable to the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Connection, relationship discovery, apoc, data science applications.

Profiler is a life saver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bloom doesn't let me create new node types / relationships unless they exist currently in the graph.

The neo4j dekstop / web app performs quite terribly when loading data above a certain limit. Even if it's not in the node visualization tab. Not sure what the threshold is, but it's fairly frustrating (I assume it's due to unoptomized js).

Option to return only what I queried for in the graph at first load... For example, I might query (n:Person)--(m:Movie) and get back the relationships in the visualization by default, which is generally great, but sometimes I want to quickly see if I'm missing something in the return statement. Although I understand that adding that feature may cause more confusion than it's worth! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been working with Neo4j professionally since 2020, primarily for the construction of knowledge graphs for regulatory reporting. Lots of things to like about the platform:

* Plenty of quickstart tools - particularly the Bloom browser, the desktop client, and Python tutorials make it easy to pick up as your first graph DB. It's a very accessible tool.

* Rich connector ecosystem for APIs, data sources, and data science capabilities.

* Speed of execution (vs. solving the same problem in a relational database). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not many negatives here. The managed offering (Aura) could be a bit more backward-compatible - as it stands, it is VERY forward-looking and as a result, it does not support older Neo4j versions (==3.x) or the bolt:// protocol. It would be good to see Neo4j 3.x on Aura, as this is the version that a popular OSS data catalog tool (Amundsen) requires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very Easy to convert a standard dataset to graphical form which provides more detailing and understandability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yet not encountered, still exploring NEO4J Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Insightful connections between the data which you have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

we can ease more on data ingestion methods for enterprise. Less known in the world of the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphical User Interface is good. It's clean and easy to analyse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A few more options for graphs would be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Providing a great experience during the conference as well as creating awesome atmosphere and inviting the best speakers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it is hard to get a fast response as they are a big company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Neo4j has an opensoruce version. Support is good and the community around this database is pretty big. Cypher QL is easy to learn and use. Neo4j browser is user-friendly and has a lot of setting for both new and experienced customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still some annoying bugs, like queries that can't be terminated by the kill command, in one of the recent versions I couldn't have more than 1 tabs open at the same time, etc..... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have tended to work with ontology data over the years. This data does not lend itself to RDBMS. Neo4j provides an excellent resource for storing the data, querying, and building applications on top of ontology data. I have used the community edition while working in academia with much success. There is just enough information on the web to get something up and running without direct sales support. I have moved to a commercial setting recently. We are exploring how to use neo4j to add an important element to our query engine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There seems to be a lot of pain involved in upgrading the neo4j system between versions (ex: 4.1->4.2->4.3). The upgrade path is brittle and very error prone. Simplifying this process is very important. I do not think the upgrade path should necessarily allow users to "skip" versions as part of the upgrade, but I think some of the steps could be automated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open-source community edition helps to start with Neo4j. Easy install, many tutorials and community blogs. Enterprise edition comes with additional features and professional support.

The native graph database is flexible, scalable and can easily transferred in a cloud instance, if necessary. Good documentation, as well as a big community.

ACID-compliant database.

In addition to the database, a native integration of GraphDataScience algorithms for machine learning, graph embeddings.

The database comes with a visualization, making it easy to start and to provide users with a user interface

Professional services, boot camps and other workshops can be booked.

There are cloud versions available for Google Cloud and AmazonWebServices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the features are only available for enterprise version including live-backup and role model.

While live-backup can be performed on a running database, for community edition the database has to be stopped. Which is ok for pilots and smaller systems. If you can not allow down time of the database you have to go for enterprise.

The role model can be handeled by an external or additional application layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.