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Neo4j AuraDB vs PuppyGraph comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Neo4j AuraDB
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Managed NoSQL Databases (6th)
PuppyGraph
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Neo4j AuraDB and PuppyGraph aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Neo4j AuraDB is designed for Managed NoSQL Databases and holds a mindshare of 5.9%, up 5.2% compared to last year.
PuppyGraph, on the other hand, focuses on NoSQL Databases, holds 0.1% mindshare.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Neo4j AuraDB5.9%
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB14.6%
MongoDB Atlas13.4%
Other66.1%
Managed NoSQL Databases
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PuppyGraph0.1%
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.3%
Cassandra8.8%
Other79.8%
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Rajveer Mathur - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior AI ML Engineer at Brillio Technologies
Graph-based knowledge has streamlined interconnected support queries and improves debugging
If I say so, how Neo4j AuraDB can be improved, at a very minute level, I can say that the graphs, if I want things to be in three dimensions. Currently we get them in two dimensions. When we scale this up, the maps become complicated, and in two dimensions things can be complex in visualization purposes. When we put in filters, the connections also vanish sometimes. The visualization side is something that could help. Additionally, if there is a voice search capability, which we can implement, that would add more functionality. With so much AI involved, AI could be helpful if we put in our data and enable it to give insights from the networks already developed in the graph. Some insights could be shown to our client, indicating that their data already contains meaningful insights, which could serve an analytical purpose. Voice search on the graph would be easily understandable and provide faster outputs to the customer.
Gurmeet K. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Unified graph querying has driven deep multi-hop reasoning and transformed data governance
There are multiple features of PuppyGraph that I personally love. One of them is zero-ETL graph querying, which helps us connect with our data warehouses easily and link via dynamic JSON graph schemas. This enables us to explore relational tables, nodes, and edges in under seven minutes, which previously took three and a half hours, so it is a great reduction. I also love the massive distributed graph scalability. The distributed vectorized compute engine helps us auto-shard queries across nodes and consistently execute 10-hop traversals across multi-billion edge data sets in under two seconds. Additionally, I appreciate the unified single source of truth. It helps us commit to the underlying tables, and those commits are immediately queryable in the graph layer within zero seconds of ETL replication lag. This ensures that our AI agents never reason over stale data and always access the latest data without any lag or changes left. The governance and security of PuppyGraph are very good, and I would rate it 10 out of 10 in that aspect. PuppyGraph's governance and security features have helped our organization, as it queries lakehouse tables directly where they originate. This delivers an exceptional governance posture for our enterprise applications with the help of inherent source-level governance and ABAC, which has supported the existing row-level security while helping us implement RBAC and column masking policies. It stabilizes operations inside Snowflake in our data warehouses and has achieved 100% policy consistency with zero security drift. The accuracy and reliability of PuppyGraph's output are really great.

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Pros

"From my experience, I particularly like the professional version. Initially, developers often start with the free variant. Once the project grows, we switch to the professional version, which offers multiple databases, expanded memory, and better scalability. This allows us to handle more data and use cloud scaling features."
"Neo4j AuraDB has impacted my organization positively as it was extremely useful to prototype the knowledge graphs for this digital twin platform."
"The stability and reliability of Neo4j AuraDB have been very good, as it is a managed service with a 99.95% SLA, so the stability is impressive and I have not faced any outages when the product stopped working abruptly during my tenure of one and a half years."
"The tool is easy to use."
"The speed of recommendation really increased after we converted the first graph we had to a Neo4j AuraDB graph, as the response time reduced from about 5 to 10 seconds to about 1 to 5 seconds in most cases."
"The best features Neo4j AuraDB offers are that it is easy to quickly build a solution with their tooling."
"The most valuable features of Neo4j AuraDB include its flexible data model and broad language support."
"Neo4j AuraDB has impacted my organization positively by improving query performance."
"PuppyGraph has positively impacted our organization by driving transformative capital efficiency across our pipeline infrastructure, our storage footprint, and our product delivery."
"PuppyGraph is the best answer."
 

Cons

"Some features can help if they can visualize graphs better."
"For me, the thing that was the most painful is the seven-day expiration where you need to reactivate or restart it."
"There’s room for improvement in Neo4j AuraDB, especially on the developer side. The learning curve can be steep, and the interface for developing and pushing code can be unnecessarily complex. It might be beneficial to simplify this process to help developers ramp up more quickly. Working with graph databases like Neo4j can be more challenging than standard databases, particularly for juniors and those new to graph technology. Streamlining the development process could make it easier for new users to get up to speed. This would be particularly useful for teams with less experience in graph databases. If I could add a feature to Neo4j AuraDB, I’d focus on improving the Bloom interface. It’s excellent for visualizing smaller datasets, but navigating through it becomes challenging as the data grows—say, past 100,000nodes. The interface works well for beginners but doesn’t scale effectively for more advanced users of large datasets. I want a UI that bridges the gap between the easy-to-use Bloom interface and more complex, text-based tools. This would help manage larger datasets more efficiently and improve performance."
"Neo4j AuraDB is a very strong platform, but there are a few areas for improvement. The pricing model can be somewhat unpredictable as your database grows, since costs scale with node and relationship counts."
"A production database service was suspended without prior notice."
"In terms of AuraDB, the conversations have always been around scalability."
"During the product's initial setup phase, there were some issues due to disconnections in the tool's network."
"If I say so, how Neo4j AuraDB can be improved, at a very minute level, I can say that the graphs, if I want things to be in three dimensions."
"PuppyGraph is not a long-term solution as it is a virtual graph. Eventually, after we get the model right, we needed to move to Memgraph, another graph database."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I used the free tier."
"The tool's enterprise edition is very expensive."
"I am using an open-source version of Neo4j AuraDB."
"Neo4j AuraDB is reasonably priced, especially considering it removes the need for cloud administration and associated costs. It's a good deal for the professional version, as it includes managed services, which reduces the overhead compared to setting up your own infrastructure. The cost can be higher for enterprise-scale projects, but that's often due to the scale and complexity of the project rather than the product itself. Startups sometimes overestimate their needs and jump to enterprise pricing too quickly, leading to higher costs than necessary."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Media Company
10%
Construction Company
27%
Insurance Company
24%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Neo4j AuraDB?
We explored the startup credit program and secured $16,000 in credits, which significantly reduced our initial cost.
What is your primary use case for Neo4j AuraDB?
My main use case for Neo4j AuraDB is to create a knowledge graph with data that represents a waterway network and infrastructure. I get the data from sources such as URIs or OpenStreetMap and creat...
What advice do you have for others considering Neo4j AuraDB?
I would recommend playing with the databases locally first. I am grateful for the free tier, as it gave me an opportunity to share early projects with others without any incurred costs. I suggest a...
What needs improvement with PuppyGraph?
PuppyGraph is a virtual graph and not a real graph data model. However, at some point in time, once we freeze this as the graph and the graph data model, we would like to extend to a proper graph, ...
What is your primary use case for PuppyGraph?
The main use case for PuppyGraph is establishing a graph data model layer on top of our existing systems. We do not want to bring in a new product which is completely graph-oriented, mainly because...
What advice do you have for others considering PuppyGraph?
There are no concrete recommendations. The important thing is that if they have to choose PuppyGraph, they need to have the clarity that PuppyGraph is not a long-term solution. Only if they have a ...
 

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