Hello fellow graphistas! It's been 3 whole months and 5 tantalizing milestones since our last major release, and now we're proud to announce that Neo4j 1.3 has been released for general availability (GA).
While there are a whole bunch of new features and improvements included in the new release (and described on our blog posting http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/04/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-released.html), perhaps the most striking feature of 1.3 is that it marks a new product direction for the database, being split into Community, Advanced, and Enterprise editions, with some radial and progressive license changes to boot: - Community edition is now licensed under the GPL. Our community and customers now have the right to run any number of Neo4j Community edition instances for whatever purpose they like at no charge. This means for most of our community, Neo4j is completely free to use with no strings attached! - Advanced edition is licensed under a dual AGPL/commercial arrangement. Where you have greater needs around managing Neo4j instances or production support, this is the right product for you. - Enterprise edition is also licensed under a dual AGPL/commercial arrangement. Where you need high availability, and more production support this is the right product for you. Note that since Advanced and Enterprise editions are dual licensed under the AGPL or a commercial license, you can continue to be free and open source, or choose a commercial license that meets your needs. In terms of features we've rolled together all of the improvements that we've been releasing as part of our milestones. For instance we've upped the database limits to 32 billion nodes, and 64 billion relationships, while at the same time being able to compact the footprint on disk. On the operational side, we've wrapped the database in a brand new visualization tool that ships by default with each version inside the Webadmin tool. Now exploring your graph is just a click away, and we think it looks super too! None of this would have been possible without the support of our community. Every day we're amazed at the enthusiasm and insight you bring to the mailing list, Twitter, and blogs. We hope this release powers you on even further. And by way of thanks and giving back to our awesome community, we're running release parties around the planet. If you're in or near Athens, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, or Washington DC, then check out the release parties schedule at http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/04/neo4j-13-abisko-lampa-released.html. Until next time, stay connected! Jim _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
