Likelihood to Recommend 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 I have had limited exposure to other development environments, but I have found Openedge to be well suited for the purposes that we are using it for. We have a windows client-server application that has been in use for over 20 years and has held it's age well. We also have a web based product using openedge appserver to access our backend code. The appserver functions well and we have been happy with it
Read full review Pros 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 Openedge databases are practically bulletproof, even when shot down abnormally. The offer complete transaction scoping, before imagining, and also after imaging for roll foward capability. Openedge has a very powerful and easy to learn 4GL programming language that can be used in a traditional or object oriented manner. Openedge also has powerful web services components, fully integrating both SOAP and RESTful web services. Openedge is completely scaleable from 1 user to a fully distributed global enterprise solution. Read full review Cons 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 Needs to improve the documentation Licensing is costly Read full review Likelihood to Renew This language used since 1980
Read full review Usability [Based on] Query Language, Performance on small and large data sets, integration and deployment, analysis, API support, Interactive UI.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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 The decision to use openedge with our particular product was made such a long time ago that I certainly was not around to make the decision. And most of the other products that would have been compared at the time are likely no longer around. Which does speak to the longevity and benefits of this product. When you look back and see how long the same product has been going forward with constant improvements and remaining relevant without major disruptive changes, it is worthy of some credit.
Read full review Return on Investment 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 Openedge is a good business partner. They provide excellent support, education, and marketing assistance. Openedge programming resources are readily available, both in the US and inexpensively overseas when additional staff is needed to complete projects. Openedge is just as powerful, but much less expensive than its rivals, like Oracle. Read full review ScreenShots