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supriyo-biswas•26 minutes ago

I wonder if there's a design decision documented somewhere that makes the existing graph databases like Neo4j, etc. not good enough for Youtrack's use case.

pandoro•8 minutes ago

Neo4j license price is egregious for enterprise customers. A few years ago I was involved in negotiating a contract for a small/medium size kubernetes deployment (think around 25 cores) and the annual price was more than the salary of a SWE full-time equivalent.

zihotki•19 minutes ago

That's a good question indeed. Also I wonder why they picked java as the implementation language.

rednb•11 minutes ago

Likely because they are a Java shop. All the IDEs they develop use Java, so they have quite an expertise in low level optimization for this language.

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database

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