Neo4j
Introduction '''Neo4j''' is a graph database management system developed by Neo4j, Inc.The data elements Neo4j stores are nodes, edges connecting them, and attributes of nodes and edges. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing, Neo4j is available in a non-open-source "community edition" licensed with a modification of the GNU General Public License, with online backup and high availability extensions licensed under a closed-source commercial license. Neo also licenses Neo4j with these extensions under closed-source commercial terms.Neo4j is implemented in Java and accessible from software written in other languages using the Cypher query language through a transactional HTTP endpoint, or through the binary "Bolt" protocol. The "4j" in Neo4j is a reference to its being built in Java, however is now largely viewed as an anachronism.
History Version 1.0 was released in February 2010.Neo4j version 2.0 was released in December 2013.Neo4j version 3.0 was released in April 2016.In November 2016, Neo4j successfully secured $36M in Series D Funding led by Greenbridge Partners Ltd.In November 2018, Neo4j successfully secured $80M in Series E Funding led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from other investors including Creandum, Eight Roads and Greenbridge Partners.In June 2021, Neo4j announced another round of funding, $325M in Series F.
Release history + Release history Release First release Latest minor version Latest release End ofSupport Date 1.0 2010-02-23    2011-08-23 1.1 2010-07-30    2012-01-30 1.2 2010-12-29    2012-06-29 1.3 2011-04-12   2012-09-12 1.4 2011-07-08   2013-01-08 1.5 2011-11-09   2013-03-09 1.6 2012-01-22   2013-07-22 1.7 2012-04-18   2013-10-18 1.8 2012-09-28   2014-03-28 1.9 2013-05-21  2014-10-13 2014-11-21 2.0 2013-12-11  2014-07-08 2015-06-11 2.1 2014-05-29  2015-04-01 2015-11-29 2.2 2015-03-25  2016-06-16 2016-09-25 2.3 2015-10-21  2017-12-12 2017-04-21 3.0 2016-04-16  2017-10-03 2017-10-31 3.1 2016-12-13  2018-06-05 2018-06-13 3.2 2017-05-11  2019-02-26 2018-11-31 3.3 2017-10-24  2018-11-02 2019-04-28 3.4 2018-05-17  2019-11-19 2020-03-31 3.5 2018-11-29  2022-08-11 2022-05-27 4.0 2020-01-15  2021-07-06 2021-07-14 4.1 2020-06-23  2022-08-11 2021-12-22 4.2 2020-11-17  2022-08-11 2022-05-16 4.3 2021-06-17  2022-12-21 2022-12-16 4.4 2021-12-02  2024-01-25 2025-06-30 5.0 2022-10-06    2022-10-24 5.1 2022-10-24    Release of 5.2 5.2 2022-11-21   Release of 5.3 5.3 2022-12-15   Release of 5.4 5.4 2023-01-26   Release of 5.5 5.5 2023-02-16   Release of 5.6 5.6 2023-03-24   Release of 5.7 5.7 2023-04-20   Release of 5.8 5.8 2023-05-16   Release of 5.9 5.9 2023-06-15   Release of 5.10 5.10 2023-07-19   Release of 5.11 5.11 2023-08-15   Release of 5.12 5.12 2023-09-14   Release of 5.13 5.13 2023-10-23   Release of 5.14 5.14 2023-11-24   Release of 5.15 5.15 2023-12-15   Release of 5.16 5.16 2024-01-22   Release of 5.17
Licensing and editions Neo4j comes in five editions. Two are on-premises editions, Community (free) and Enterprise, and three are cloud-only editions: AuraDB Free, AuraDB Professional, and AuraDB Enterprise.It is dual-licensed: GPL v3 (with parts of the code under AGPLv3 with Commons Clause), and a proprietary license. The Community Edition is free but is limited to running on one node only due to the lack of clustering and is without hot backups.The Enterprise Edition unlocks these limitations, allowing for clustering, hot backups, and monitoring. The Enterprise Edition is available under a closed-source Commercial license.
Data structure The data elements are nodes, edges which connect nodes to one another, and attributes of nodes and edges. Nodes and edges can be labelled. Labels can be used to narrow searches. As of version 2.0, indexing was added to Cypher with the introduction of schemas. Previously, indexes were supported separately from Cypher.
Neo4j, Inc. Neo4j is developed by Neo4j, Inc., based in San Mateo, California, United States, and also in Malmö, Sweden.
See also * CODASYL*Cypher (query language)* Gremlin (query language)
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