Anyone using neo4j in prod?
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damp-coat-97256
08/03/2020, 6:03 PMAnyone using neo4j in prod?
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victorious-energy-56764
08/03/2020, 6:09 PMI have, a few years ago. Ended up migrating to PostgreSQL later.
I even gave a talk about it.
If you need recent experience, ping @deobald on Twitter.
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damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 5:58 AMAh, thanks. I recently migrated from neo4j (poc stage) to dgraph actually and wanted to see how many people are actually using neo4j in prod
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victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 6:02 AMNeo4j is the defacto graph DB IMO. Others are challengers.
victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 6:03 AMWhat were your reasons to move?
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damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 6:18 AMCosts mainly.
When I started the POC, I went through this - https://neo4j.com/subscriptions/#editions - and decided community is good enough. But then realized that the licensing (in a separate page) doesn’t allow community usage for non-open source commercial use. Had a chat with them and the costs were too high for the use case.
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victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 6:40 AMBut then realized that the licensing (in a separate page) doesn’t allow community usage for non-open source commercial use.What! This is a new thing! We used it in a commercial app. In fact, they even gave us a 3-month free trial for enterprise.
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damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:11 PMIf you’re building an application that accesses a Neo4j database running inside your organization (or on any personal device), then you are free to use Community Edition, whether or not your software is closed source.https://neo4j.com/licensing/
damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:11 PMThis wasn’t the case before?
damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:12 PMIt also felt bad that they have comparisons on one page but don’t mention this in that page
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victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 4:14 PMThis wasn’t the case before?No, it wasn't.
victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 4:16 PMI can't take dgraph seriously after claims like "Dgraph is 160x faster than Neo4j for loading graph data.".
How's your experience so far?
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damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:16 PMI will just say I love neo4j and cypher much more 🙂
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damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:17 PMDgraph is pretty rough, has some serious issues with consistency when running with multiple alpha servers
damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:17 PMThe querying is very nonintuitive
damp-coat-97256
08/04/2020, 4:17 PMcypher was a breeze
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victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 4:21 PMCypher is awesome.
victorious-energy-56764
08/04/2020, 4:22 PMIt's on par with SQL -- and I am practically an SQL evangelist.
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