Hi Jim, How would you use Cypher specifically? Through REST API? Or there's another, more direct way?
I want to use it from my Node.Js and my Neo4J is a server installation (not embedded). Thanks! Dmitry On Friday, August 16, 2013 12:26:39 PM UTC+2, Jim Webber wrote: > > Hi Ramesh, > > > We have enterprise edition of Neo4j, though is it a performance hit > using rest api? > > The REST API uses a HTTP connection and a textual protocol. The Core API > and friends are in-process calls, that's why the REST API is generally > slower. However using the REST API means you have flexibility in deployment > and choice of platforms from which you can call Neo4j. > > When using Cypher, the difference is less pronounced. > > > What is the difference between community version of neo4j server and > enterprise edition of neo4j server? > > There are two important aspects to this: licensing and functionality. > > 1. Licensing: Neo4j Community edition is licensed under GPL, while > Enterprise is licensed under AGPL. If either license is not appropriate for > you, then you should contact Neo Technology about a commercial license. > > 2. Functionality: Enterprise adds the ability to take online backups and > create high availability clusters. It also has a more predictable, > performant internal cache implementation. Otherwise there is no difference > in functionality: Neo4j community is a totally functional, unlimited to use > database too. > > > May I know that the in terms of java vs Python which technology give > better performance to communicating with neo4j db? > > That depends on how you choose to use it. If you use a JVM language, you > can bind to the Neo4j Java APIs and avoid network penalties. However, the > Cypher query language is fast becoming the preferred "API" for Neo4j and > that can be used from whatever platform you choose. > > In the general case, when I'm building a system with Neo4j I would use the > language that makes me most productive and then use whatever drivers/APIs > are available on that stack to communicate with the database. > > Hope that helps, > > Jim > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
