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Well suited for: Games, Chat rooms, real time software like corporate events, marathons and so. Anytime and anywhere you could use a NoSQL DB you should think of SimpleDB. As an arduous AWS user, Amazon SimpleDB easily integrates with EC2 and other AWS module; and if you are not an AWS user, you also have a fantastic tool that will solve the problem for which you are focused.Incentivized
Neo4J is great for creating network graphs or illustrating how things are related. It is also good for finding individuals or things that have greater influence than others in a system. It is not appropriate if you have standard data sets that can be analyzed using conventional methods or visualized using Tableau, for example.Incentivized
FlexibilityEasy to learn and useAWS integrationIncentivized
Mature Query language, I found Cypher QL to be mature in handling all sorts of problems we throw at it. Its expressive enough to be intuitive while providing rich features for various scenarios.Native support for REST API, that makes interacting with Neo4J intuitive and easy.Support for Procedures in Java, procedures are custom code that could be added to the Neo4J to write custom querying of data. The best part about the procedures is it could be invoked using the REST API. This allows us to overcome any shortcomings from their Cypher query language.Nice UI and interface for executing the Query and visualizing the response.UI access controlled by User credentials allows for neat access controls.Awesome free community edition for small-scale projects.Incentivized
Non AWS environmentsStrict storage limit (but well we have DynamoDB for storage issues)Incentivized
One of the hardest challenges that Neo4j had to solve was the horizontal scaling problem. I am not updated on recent developments, but at the time of my use, I couldn't find a viable solution.Neo4j does not play with other open source APIs like Blueprint. You have to use the native Neo4j API.There wasn't a visual tool to see your data. Of course, third party tools are always available, but I would have loved something which came with the Neo4j bundle. I love that Docker comes bundled with Kitematic, so it's not wrong to hope that Neo4j could also ship with some default visualization software.Incentivized
[Based on] Query Language, Performance on small and large data sets, integration and deployment, analysis, API support, Interactive UI.Incentivized
It integrates beautifully with AWS. In some projects we use SimpleDB while we use DynamoDB for others, according to the characteristics of the project. If the infrastructure is AWS, we always think of one of them.Incentivized
Neo4j is a graph store and has different use cases compared to another NoSQL Document store like MongoDB. MongoDB is a bad choice when joins are common as existing operators for joining two documents (similar to tables in a relational store) as Mongo 3.5 use SQL like join algorithms which are expensive. MongoDB is a great choice when distributed schemaless rich document structures are important requirements. Cross document transaction support is not native to MongoDB yet, whereas Neo4J is ACID complaint with all its operations.Incentivized
Reduced database administration timeReduced data model analysis timeLower cost of resources in projects in generalIncentivized
Positive: Less complex queries on graph structures, than in relational databases.Negative: maintenance is a huge deal, things doesn't work and break, requiring lengthy restore operations.