Neo4J

Neo4j Graph Database

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

7.8 /10

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What is Neo4j Graph Database?

Centered around the leading graph database, today's Neo4j Graph Data Platform is a suite of applications and tools helping the world make sense of data. The Platform includes Neo4j Graph Data Science – the leading enterprise-ready analytics workspace for graph data – the graph visualization and exploration tool Bloom, the Cypher query language, and numerous tools, integrations and connectors to help developers and data scientists build graph-based solutions with ease.

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Neo4j Graph Database Ratings

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86 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

4
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Neo4j Graph Database?

0% Negative

14% Neutral

86% Positive

Pros

Includes Product Enhancements
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Data Virtualization

Data Management

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Data Monitoring and Administration

Data Protection and Security

Database Management

Big Data Analytics

Analytics and Reporting

High Availability

Operations Management

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Neo4j Graph Database Reviews

Jasvinder S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Feb 2025

Powerful for Connected Data, but Scaling Has Limit

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Neo4j Graph Database from other similar products?

Neo4j is a native graph database with fast relationship traversal, ACID compliance, and the Cypher query language. Unlike layered graph solutions, it optimizes deep queries with index-free adjacency. It excels in fraud detection, recommendations, and knowledge graphs while offering enterprise features like Neo4j Aura, Graph Data Science, and AI integrations

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Neo4j is its native graph storage and index-free adjacency, which makes relationship traversal extremely fast and efficient. Unlike relational databases that rely on costly joins, Neo4j’s architecture ensures near-constant-time lookups for connected data, making it ideal for complex queries in fraud detection, recommendations, and knowledge graphs.

What do you dislike most about this product?

its scalability limitations for extremely large datasets. While it supports horizontal scaling via Neo4j Fabric, it is not as naturally distributed as databases like TigerGraph or Amazon Neptune

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Before adopting it, evaluate whether your use case benefits from graph traversal, as relational or columnar databases may be better for analytical workloads. While Neo4j is efficient, its scalability is limited compared to fully distributed graph databases

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Effective Service

Srikanth C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Submitted Aug 2024

Suphisticated data management with graphs

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Neo4j Graph Database from other similar products?

The Graph based Database structure is widely different from general Relational Databases. Implementation of graphs to associate data makes it much easier to relate data in database. Path and Weight related algorithms can be executed more smoothly. It also offers its own Qurry language which comes in handy

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Neo4J can handle complex relations with higher volumes of data and higher widths of data much better than other SQL based data bases.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cost is one of the biggest negative point, especially for its Enterprise version. The complexity to execute code is also a big difficult for beginners. Backing up data should be handled with extreme care because of the data nature

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Considerable amount of experience in Database administration is recommended as it is not of beginner friendly nature

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Prashanth P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Education
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jul 2024

Ease of use be it local or production grade

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Neo4j Graph Database from other similar products?

Ease of use with docker

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Using it in products with docker images

What do you dislike most about this product?

Port issue when initially setup

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Great tool for implementing recommendation services in product

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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Neo4j Graph Database Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

4 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Neo4j Graph Database?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Virtualization Includes ability to create views joining disparate data sources without the need for persistence.

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing Also referred to as OLTP (Online Transaction processing). OLTP databases include strong support for CRUD operations and ACID compliance.

Data Monitoring and Administration Includes ability to continuously monitored data quality rules, as well as generate alerts to notify data stewards when they need to address an issue.

Data Protection and Security Includes data encryption, data audit, and data compliance.

Database Management Supports multiple data types, data structuring, data retrieval, database customization, and multi-user access.

Big Data Analytics Use of big data analytics through integration into purpose-built big data tools or native capabilities, incorporating advanced security methods.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

High Availability HA DB designed for near-zero downtown by seamless replication of data between environments for uninterrupted real-time access and fail-over capabilities.

Operations Management Includes cost control, production management, and performance management.

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support Includes OLTP and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). Most OLTP systems support some level of OLAP but very few OLAP systems support OLTP.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Neo4j Graph Database Reviews

Jasvinder S.

Powerful for Connected Data, but Scaling Has Limit

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Srikanth C.

Suphisticated data management with graphs

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Prashanth P.

Ease of use be it local or production grade

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Virtualization

Data Management

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Data Monitoring and Administration

Data Protection and Security

Database Management

Big Data Analytics

Analytics and Reporting

High Availability

Operations Management

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support