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by 1attice 1288 days ago
I think probably memgraph.com is what's going on with neo4j
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david_p 1287 days ago
I work closely with Neo4j and Memgraph.

What is happening to Neo4j is not directly related to Memgraph. Neo4j raised a lot of cash and their investors have a lot of expectations now, this puts their sales under a lot of pressure and has pushed them to raise prices.

On the other hand, Memgraph is cheap and aims at being compatible with Neo4j from an API point of view (even though their don't share any tech background : Neo4js is Java, Memgraph is C++).

Memgraph can be a good replacement for Neo4j, but is not yet popular enough to be a menace for Neo4j in the short term.

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cutemonster 1287 days ago
Interesting. You have any experience with Memgraph?

Did Neo4j remove the enterprise edition source code? Maybe Memgraph was the inspiration for that too hmm

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john-mark 1286 days ago
Yes they closed the enterprise source code.

They first tried adding the commons clause, then when that did not accomplish what they wanted, they closed the enterprise source code.

The kicker is that this was not because of behemoth like Amazon or Oracle, it was because of a single individual… (guess who?)

Good read to get a better picture:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink...

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cutemonster 1284 days ago
Thanks for the link, interesting to read.

"The issue as to whether the clause can be removed is still pending" -- that was in Mars, is it still pending now in December?

My guess was that indeed it could have been you :-) (which it was) since I couldn't think of anyone else.

Annoying behavior by Neo4j, and also interesting that AGPL didn't work for them

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