On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Jim Webber <j...@neotechnology.com> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
