Likelihood to Recommend Applications where the users need [to] execute many short queries. With new storage engines such as Aria, which allows to replace MyISAM with some improvements, and XtraDB, which evolves InnoDB. To fuse the legacy features with the features available in NoSQL databases. Connection management, which allows multiplying the number of concurrent accesses. New clustering engines, such as Galera, which allow interesting possibilities for Cloud adoption. Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros Simpler learning curve. MariaDB is a cleaner, simpler system that is (IMO) easier to learn and easier to manage effectively than many other database systems. Lower hardware requirements. After migrating to MariaDB from another database software system, we find that our hardware needs have substantially decreased. MariaDB support is very responsive. It's like they actually care. On the few occasions we've run into technical issues, support has always come through with what we needed. Once it was showing me a relatively new feature the server supported that I wasn't aware of, that, once I was able to properly make use of it helped me resolve a serious production performance issue. Architectural flexibility. As an example, the ready availability of synchronous (Galera) versus asynchronous replication schemes without being locked into one of the other by enormous technical complexity or punitive licensing, allows the customer to find what really works best for their needs. Read full review 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. Read full review Cons Driver Support - Some third party applications use database drivers that cause unexplained slowness with MariaDB. This can be worked around by using the MySQL drivers, but it's not clear what causes the problem in the first place. Support - While online communities are helpful in diagnosing problems, there isn't as much professional documentation/support available for MariaDB as some of the other major database options. Data Visualization - It would be helpful if there were more built in options for analyzing statistics and generating reports. Read full review 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. Read full review Usability MariaDB is very usable and stable to be used in production settings as an alternative to
MySQL . The shortcomings of SQL are present but well understood in the community, and if the decision were to be made again, I would choose MariaDB over
MySQL on future projects.
Read full review [Based on] Query Language, Performance on small and large data sets, integration and deployment, analysis, API support, Interactive UI.
Read full review Support Rating We have launched several inquiries to MariaDB support and they have always responded very quickly and have not been tutoring for the duration of the incident/problem.
Likewise, they want to hold constant meetings with the client to get their opinion as well as how they can help.
I see a very human support and concerned about the customer.
Read full review Alternatives Considered MariaDB stacks up the the competition just fine. Due to is ture open source nature we do not have to worry about licencing and spending money on nothing. Moreover, MariaDB does everything that we need to get done. We can run data that is a million rows or many smaller projects on the same environment with little overhead. One of the best features that MariaDB has is the ability of backup or dump data to standard text sql statements. That was one of the reasons why we choose MariaDb because it makes backups or transferring data a snap
Read full review 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.
Read full review Return on Investment Low CAPEX if you have a team that use open source software day by day Medium OPEX if you have a team that use open source software day by day Perfect to use in academic ambient to support researchers and students Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots