Neo4j

About Neo4j

Relational databases start to strain the moment your data is fundamentally about relationships, social networks, recommendation engines, fraud detection, where the connections between records matter as much as the records themselves. Intuz’s Neo4j AMI puts the native graph database management system on Amazon EC2, built specifically for storing and querying property graphs rather than forcing relationship data into rows and foreign keys.

The property graph data model is the core of what makes Neo4j different, data and relationships are stored as first-class citizens rather than computed through joins, which means queries that would require multiple expensive joins in a relational database often run significantly faster as a direct graph traversal.

A web UI is included for monitoring and running queries directly against your database, and UNIQUE constraints are supported for data integrity, so you’re not trading query performance for the guardrails a relational database normally provides.

The paid stack adds a self-signed SSL certificate, webUI access, and snapshot and update scripts, so the operational side of running a production graph database is covered from day one rather than added later.

If your use case sits between graph relationships and more traditional document or key-value storage, the ArangoDB AMI is the better fit, a multi-model database that supports graph, document, and key-value data through a single query language, useful when you don’t want to commit to a purely graph-shaped data model.

Key Features of Neo4j

• It is integrated with SSL for enhanced security measures
• It has webUI to monitor and run queries on your database
• It has scripts for snapshot and update management
• It follows Property Graph Data Model
• It supports UNIQUE constraints

Neo4j Paid Stack

Intuz Neo4j Stack comes with a paid version which is integrated with SSL (Self-Signed), webUI, snapshot (backup), and update scripts.