CrateDB vs. Neo4j

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CrateDB
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
CrateDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database for relational and time-series data, from Crate.io headquartered in San Francisco. A solution for machine data, the vendor states CrateDB is purpose-built for the need to scale volume, variety and velocity of data while running aggregated complex real-time queries, anywhere and without driving up costs.
$53
per month
Neo4j
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Neo4j is an open source embeddable graph database developed by Neo Technologies based in San Mateo, California with an office in Sweden.
$65
per month
Pricing
CrateDBNeo4j
Editions & Modules
Shared S2
$53
per month
Shared S4
$103
per month
Shared S6
$153
per month
Dedicated CR1
$187.25
per month
Shared S12
$303
per month
Dedicated CR2
$362.45
per month
Dedicated CR3
$712.85
per month
Dedicated CR4
$ 1,413.65
per month
Open Source
Free for Self-Hosting
Custom
Custom
Custom
Aura Professional
$65
per month
Community Edition
Free
Enterprise Edition
Contact Sales
Aura Free
Free
Aura Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CrateDBNeo4j
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
CrateDBNeo4j
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
2.1
(9 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CrateDBNeo4j
Likelihood to Recommend
Crate.io Inc
No answers on this topic
Neo Technologies
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.
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Pros
Crate.io Inc
No answers on this topic
Neo Technologies
  • 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.
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Cons
Crate.io Inc
No answers on this topic
Neo Technologies
  • 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.
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Usability
Crate.io Inc
No answers on this topic
Neo Technologies
Learning cypher was super easy coming from a SQL background. Furthermore, the docs Neo4j provides on their website make it really easy to pull up a reference, guide or a quick example. The mac app they provide is also really well designed with good visualisation tools, with the ability to easily use colour, line thickness etc to help navigate your data.
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Alternatives Considered
Crate.io Inc
No answers on this topic
Neo Technologies
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.
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Return on Investment
Crate.io Inc
No answers on this topic
Neo Technologies
  • 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.
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