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    Firebird

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AFirebirdSQL is an open-source database which can be embedded.N/A

    Neo4j

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ANeo4j is an open source embeddable graph database developed by Neo Technologies based in San Mateo, California with an office in Sweden.

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    User Ratings
    FirebirdNeo4j
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Usability
    8.0
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    9.0
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    FirebirdNeo4j
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    It is able to handle simultaneous connections when using the embedded software version. It is well suited for organizations looking for standalone servers that can handle high data volumes and still perform well and which is also cost-effective database management system especially when they are working on a low budget.
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    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
    Open Source
    • Performance is really fast.
    • It is portable and easy to take back ups.
    • Its open n source and free.
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    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
    Open Source
    • Documentation.
    • No GUI tool to view data.
    • Slow via remote access.
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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    Because it is free and usually zero maintenance. Just the issue of more difficult format updates in the future lower the rating a bit.
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    Neo Technologies
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    Usability
    Open Source
    Usability has improved by unifying the architecture. The only thing's missing out of the box is a simple GUI DB tool for viewing DB contents and maybe running some SQL queries.
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    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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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    This is an open source project. It provides a fair amount of free documentation and I think forums somewhere...
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    Neo Technologies
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    Even somebody just starting to use RDBMS himself should get it working quickly, at least if he's got a GUI tool and some SQL knowledge.
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    Neo Technologies
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    Open Source
    Because it is having Open Source License and easy to deploy on windows and linux environment
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    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
    Open Source
    • Cost effective saving us from paid relational database.
    • Community support.
    • Efficiency in handling simultaneous connections.
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    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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