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Difference between Neo4j and MongoDB

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1. Neo4j : 
It is most famous graph database management system and it is also NoSQL database system which is developed by Neo4j, Inc. It is different from Mysql or MongoDB as it has its features that makes it special compared to other Database Management System. Neo4j also stores and present data in form of graph not in tabular format or not in a Json format. In this whole data is represented by nodes and there you can create a relationship between nodes which means whole database collection will look like a graph, which makes Neo4j unique from other database management system. 

2. MongoDB : 
It is open-source document-oriented and a non relational (i.e., NoSQL) database program. It is a cross-platform document database, that stores data in form of key-value pairs. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and initially released on 11 February 2009. MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. It is developed using C++, Go, JavaScript, Python languages. MongoDB provides high speed, high availability, and high scalability. 

It is written using C++, Erlang, C, Go languages and its server is designed to provide us with easy-to-scale key-value or JSON document access with high sustained throughput and low latency. 

Difference between Neo4j and MongoDB : 

S.No. Neo4j MongoDB
1. It was developed by Neo4j, Inc. It was developed by MongoDB Inc.
2. It was initially released in 2007. It was initially released on 11 February 2009.
3. It is written using Java and Scala language. It is written in C++, Go, JavaScript, Python languages.
4. It does not supports Map Reduce method. It supports Map Reduce method.
5. It has foreign keys. It does not have foreign keys.
6. Neo4j APIs and other access methods includes Bolt protocol, Cypher query language, Java API, Neo4j-OGM, RESTful HTTP, API, Spring Data Neo4j, TinkerPop 3. APIs and other access methods include proprietary protocol using JSON.
7. It is data schema free and schema optional. It is data schema free.
8. It does not support SQL. It provides support to Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI.
9. Its primary database model is Graph DBMS. Its primary database model is Document Store.
10. Neo4j supports programming languages which are .Net, Clojure, Elixir, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. It supports D, Dart, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Lisp, Lua, MatLab, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Prolog, Actionscript, C, C##, C++, Clojure, Python, R, Ruby, Haskell, Java, Javascript, Scala, Smalltalk programming languages.
11. It does not supports Partitioning methods. It supports Sharding Partitioning methods.
12. Neo4j is used by famous companies like medium.com., Stack, Fiverr, Fundamentei, Trendyol Group, double slash, ingsmen Software, GAPO, etc. MongoDB is used by Famous companies like Amadeus, ViaVarejo, Craftbase, Lyft, etc.

Last Updated : 22 Feb, 2023
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