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Considering OrientDB does everything and more, is Neo4j withering away?

jaytaylor 11y ago
http://orientdb.com/orientdb/ http://orientdb.com/orientdb/
nnq 11y ago
...considering this is true, than why you hear of so many people using Neo4j and so little about OrientDB? I mean, I am really curious... is it just the "started effect" where people just stick with the first thing that seem to mostly work? (the same thing that makes MySQL more pupular than Potgres for example) I tried some time ago a 1.x version of Orient in comparison with a Neo4j of the same era, and Neo4j proved to be very simple to just jump right in and start querying around... whereas OrientDB had so many interesting concepts but it took so much time to digest them and decide what should I use... and in the end it wasn't relevant for me as I just dropped the hole graph db thing and went for "dumbest" solution of Mongo + MySQL ...so I don't have any authority to talk about this really :)
rurounijones 11y ago
I was rather interested in OrientDB but the lack of any quality ruby drivers was a roadblock. I have just checked again - There are currently 3, which is much better than I remember. * One uses the Java driver via JRuby only. * One hasn't been updated since 2012 * One is HTTP which isn't the end of the world but it is not an official driver which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
- daemonfire300 11y ago
  A few months ago I checked out several Graph DBs and my conclusion was, if you want proper drivers you are best suited with Java, because those DBs mostly have a driver based on this "Tinker" and "Blueprint" stuff.
ryguyrg2 11y ago
http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms
jexp 11y ago
Not sure where you get your info from, but yes, thank you Neo4j is doing just fine :) We have sound investment and revenue, growing list of large and small customers and a super active community, which I'm really proud of. All of that while driving a lot of cool development in the product. Could't be a better time. I'd be happy if more graph databases show up that actually drive the graph database space forward than having petty fights between each other. Disclaimer, I work for Neo as you can tell but happy to discuss concrete details any time.

http://orientdb.com/orientdb/ http://orientdb.com/orientdb/

nnq 11y ago

...considering this is true, than why you hear of so many people using Neo4j and so little about OrientDB? I mean, I am really curious... is it just the "started effect" where people just stick with the first thing that seem to mostly work? (the same thing that makes MySQL more pupular than Potgres for example) I tried some time ago a 1.x version of Orient in comparison with a Neo4j of the same era, and Neo4j proved to be very simple to just jump right in and start querying around... whereas OrientDB had so many interesting concepts but it took so much time to digest them and decide what should I use... and in the end it wasn't relevant for me as I just dropped the hole graph db thing and went for "dumbest" solution of Mongo + MySQL ...so I don't have any authority to talk about this really :)

rurounijones 11y ago

I was rather interested in OrientDB but the lack of any quality ruby drivers was a roadblock. I have just checked again - There are currently 3, which is much better than I remember. * One uses the Java driver via JRuby only. * One hasn't been updated since 2012 * One is HTTP which isn't the end of the world but it is not an official driver which doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.

daemonfire300 11y ago
A few months ago I checked out several Graph DBs and my conclusion was, if you want proper drivers you are best suited with Java, because those DBs mostly have a driver based on this "Tinker" and "Blueprint" stuff.

ryguyrg2 11y ago

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms

jexp 11y ago

Not sure where you get your info from, but yes, thank you Neo4j is doing just fine :) We have sound investment and revenue, growing list of large and small customers and a super active community, which I'm really proud of. All of that while driving a lot of cool development in the product. Could't be a better time. I'd be happy if more graph databases show up that actually drive the graph database space forward than having petty fights between each other. Disclaimer, I work for Neo as you can tell but happy to discuss concrete details any time.