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Disclaimer: I’m an 8 year Neo4j user and 6 year employee. Neo4j is a great database if you learn how to use it and are willing to get your hands dirty every on

Disclaimer: I’m an 8 year Neo4j user and 6 year employee. Neo4j is a great database if you learn how to use it and are willing to get your hands dirty every once in a while (write Java). I keep a blog at maxdemarzi.com on the things you can do with it. See the dating site blog series it may be relevant to what you are doing. We have thousands of videos, slideshares, blog posts trying to teach graphs. If you take the time to learn you will be successful. If you connect with us on Slack and ask you will be successful. If you treat it like an rdbms you will fail. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oALqiXDAYhc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oALqiXDAYhc for a primer and see https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cup2OyTfrBM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cup2OyTfrBM for the crazy stuff you can do that most DBs can’t.

xtracto 8y ago
Every time that Neo4J is mentioned here, the pricing issues are raised. No exception today: I used Neo4J at a previous startup, but after using the "free" non-scaled version of it, we got into a hard bottleneck due to a lack of scalability. When we looked to scale Neo4J, we almost had a heart attack when seeing the price. Being this a 50 people "developing country" startup we could not afford to pay the very steep prices.
- kkarakk 8y ago
  did they not offer a competitive rate when you contacted them based on your country's exchange rate?
- mikekchar 8y ago
  Disclaimer: I know nothing about Neo4J or their pricing structure. To be fair, though, niche products are often very expensive because there aren't many customers to pay for the development. If you have a million paying customers you can charge them $10 a year each and fund a reasonable sized company. If you have 5, then you need to charge them $2 million each ;-) Having said that, I tried to find pricing information on their website and couldn't find it. For me that's a sign of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" level of pricing...

xtracto 8y ago

Every time that Neo4J is mentioned here, the pricing issues are raised. No exception today: I used Neo4J at a previous startup, but after using the "free" non-scaled version of it, we got into a hard bottleneck due to a lack of scalability. When we looked to scale Neo4J, we almost had a heart attack when seeing the price. Being this a 50 people "developing country" startup we could not afford to pay the very steep prices.

kkarakk 8y ago
did they not offer a competitive rate when you contacted them based on your country's exchange rate?
mikekchar 8y ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Neo4J or their pricing structure. To be fair, though, niche products are often very expensive because there aren't many customers to pay for the development. If you have a million paying customers you can charge them $10 a year each and fund a reasonable sized company. If you have 5, then you need to charge them $2 million each ;-) Having said that, I tried to find pricing information on their website and couldn't find it. For me that's a sign of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" level of pricing...