Neo4j alternatives

6 tested alternatives to Neo4j. Each was assigned the same job label from a fixed vocabulary we maintain — not from how the vendor describes itself — and every one is scored on the same objective 7-Frame benchmark. Ordered by score.

Same job does not mean same platform, same country, or same price tier. Check before you switch.

• ClickHouse — ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system
• Redis — Redis is an open-source, in-memory data platform for real-time applications and AI agents
• Neon — Neon is a serverless Postgres platform with usage-based pricing and autoscaling
• Zilliz — Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database service built on Milvus
• MariaDB — MariaDB offers managed and self-hosted relational database services built on MariaDB Enterprise
• PlanetScale, Inc. — PlanetScale is a cloud database platform offering MySQL-compatible and Postgres databases