Company
Date Published
Author
Jeff Morris
Word count
729
Language
English
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None

Summary

The new release of Neo4j Graph Platform, version 3.3, has several key improvements and upgrades across its native graph database, including significant enhancements to write performance, Cypher interpreter speed, and data import functionality. The platform also introduces a new Data Lake Integrator toolkit for importing and exporting HDFS files into graphs, and a simplified ETL process for morphing data from relational databases into graph data. Additionally, the Graph Analytics component has been improved with a fast graph algorithms library, and Cypher for Apache Spark has been enhanced to bind ease of writing Cypher with a massively scalable in-memory graph analytics processor. The Enterprise Edition includes several new features such as Neo4j Desktop, which provides a free local instance of Neo4j Enterprise Edition for development, and numerous improvements to the database kernel that expand database availability during upgrades.