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Enterprise licenses for on premise Neo4j are certainly for a specific customers with specific needs, but there is always the DBaaS (https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura
by hugofirth 5y ago
Enterprise licenses for on premise Neo4j are certainly for a specific customers with specific needs, but there is always the DBaaS (https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura/ https://neo4j.com/cloud/aura/).
Or if you absolutely need on premise and are small there is the startup program for free enterprise licenses (https://neo4j.com/startups/ https://neo4j.com/startups/)
- busterarm 5y agoNeo4j's entire pricing model, even in cloud, is built around the idea that you'll have one centralized very large graph. Many companies, like the one I'm at, have the opposite use case -- many, geo-distributed, tiny graphs and multiple (read: 3-5) pre-prod environments. They simply don't have a pricing model that supports customers like us. They wanted to charge us something like 10% of our ARR for something that was just a component of one microservice.
- zozbot234 5y ago"Many tiny graphs" seems like an interesting use case for Postgres or even SQLite, seeing as it also supports recursive query.
- busterarm 5y agotiny compared to the scale they're looking to sell but not exactly small. Also network-isolated. A graph db is the right tool for this use case. Just not really theirs, although it could if they could understand how to sell it to us at a fair price.