NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

NASA's people analytics group has swapped its Neo4j graph database for Memgraph due to costs. David Meza, senior data scientist on the team, told a recent webinar that despite using Neo4j for around ten years, cost had become an issue. Meza had previously spoken to The Register about the benefits of using the Neo4j graph …

[Korev]

But is it Webscale?

[xyz]

Blimey!

The ultimate HR DB from hell

We need an urdú native speaker, with a PhD in astrobiology and another PhD in Hel·lènic poetry and In a wheelchair STAT!

Oh, you mean Bob in accounting.

[Anonymous Coward]

We are looking at Oracle Graph Server (and Graph Functions in 23c if they ever deign to sell it to humans) also because of Neo4J costs but that does require recoding our application queries.

[MatthewSt]

You're looking at Oracle as a cheaper alternative...?

[Anonymous Coward]

That alone should tell you how obscenely, obnoxiously expensive Neo4j quotes their licenses.

Our [multibillion revenue national e-commerce] org went through a month and a half of demos, use case discussion, and requirements clarification with their sales team only to get absolutely gobsmacked by a quote they handed us at the end which both completely ignored our stated budget and belied an insistence that the Lexus they were trying to sell us was actually a low-end Ferrari and not a high-end version of a free Toyota.

[ecofeco]

Sigh

I member when NASA used to roll their own software.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Re: Sigh

They are rolling their own applications based on tools available, same as they always did after the 70s