Convenient package Neo4j Apoc 0.1 released

Today we released the first version of Neo4j Apoc. Apoc is an acronym for A Package Of Components and it bundles a handful of useful Neo4j components into a single download.

We created Apoc because we noticed that we always included the same set of initial components in our projects. Additionally, one of the most frequent questions we get on for example the user mailing list is 'how do you find a node by property value?' The answer is 'well, you use index-util, which you can download from the maven site.'

Now you don't have to. If you use Apoc, you already have index-util on your classpath as well as a component for remote access (remote-neo) and a command-line browser.

Feel free to check it out and please give us feedback as usual!

Neo4j 1.0-b8 released: online backup & improved performance

Neo4j 1.0-b8 — the open source graph database — was released today with a major set of features including incremental online backup of running Neo4j instances, reduced memory footprint and lots of performance improvements. Download it here.

While this is officially a beta release, we've had later stage snapshots running in production for a couple of months on several production systems. Grab it fresh off the presses, read the list mail announcement and check out the details in the changelog.

As always, feedback to the mailing list, on Twitter or directly to us.