Up and Running with Neo4j - Practical Neo4j - page 10

■ in addition to installing a version of neo4j on your local machine, you can visit http://www.graphstory.com/
practicalneo4j to setup a free, fully configured neo4j instance of the enterprise version for personal use. You will be
provided with your own free trial, a knowledge base, and email support from graph Story.

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Requirements
The requirements in Table 2-1 apply to a single instance of Neo4j. In terms of capability and performance for a single
instance, memory and disk capability are the primary performance constraints. The amount of memory impacts the
graph size that can fit in memory and disk I/O capability affects read/write performance.

Table 2-1. Requirements for Running Neo4j

Minimum Recommended

CPU Intel Core i3 Intel Core i7

Memory 2GB 16-32GB

Disk 10GB SATA SSD with SATA

Filesystem ext4 ext4, ZFS

Versions
As of this writing, Neo Technology, the commercial entity that supports the ongoing development of Neo4j, offers a
community license as well as enterprise subscriptions. This topic uses the enterprise version, which includes the most
critical features for exploring Neo4j. With the enterprise edition, the pricing and feature set has been set to match the
current operational stage of a business. For example, the personal edition of Neo4j is in line with an early-stage or
bootstrap company.

■ the types of licenses can be found in table 2-2 , which display only some of the more pertinent differences
in capability and support with neo4j. the license types are those available at time of writing publishing and are likely to
evolve.

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