| ▲ | pandoro 5 hours ago | |
Neo4j is a great DB but their license price is egregious for enterprise customers. A few years ago I was involved in negotiating a contract for a small/medium size kubernetes deployment (think around 25 cores) and the annual price was more than the salary of a senior SWE full-time equivalent. See this page for an idea of their prices in 2018: https://blog.igovsol.com/2018/01/10/Neo4j-Commercial-Prices.... | ||
| ▲ | brabel 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Also embedding Neo4j is not possible, that seems to be the killer feature for YouTrackDB, they even shade dependencies so it’s like a no deps Java library for your application. | ||
| ▲ | danpalmer 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> small/medium size kubernetes deployment (think around 25 cores That's ~1 machine. 1 SWE for a database isn't egregious, databases provide huge value, but for that little performance, that's crazy. I can only assume as core count has blown up over the last 10 years, the pricing has somewhat diminished, but still, I'd be expecting a heck of a lot more capacity for 1 SWE. | ||
| ▲ | fsuts 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Not just that, if a database company has both a community edition and enterprise then it’s likely the enterprise will get many new features that the community edition will never get. Ongoing enshittification risk. | ||