Learning Neo4j 3.x - Second Edition

Committed to open source

One of the key things that we have seen happening in Enterprise information technology is the true and massive adoption of open source technologies for many of its business-critical applications. This has been an evolution that has lasted a decade at least, starting with peripheral systems such as web servers (in the days when web servers were still considered to be serving static web pages), but gradually evolving to mission critical operating systems, content management applications, CRM systems, and databases such as Neo4j.

There are many interesting aspects to open source software, but some of the most often quoted are listed as follows:

• Lower chance of vendor lock-in: As the code is readily available, the user ...