2. • Neo4j Introduction
(Fredrik Johansson, Neo4j)
• The Value of Graphs & The Graph Platform
(Rik Van Bruggen, Neo4j)
• Next-Generation Solutions using Graph Databases
(Kees Vegter, Neo4j)
• Graph Database Case Studies
(Rik Van Bruggen, Neo4j)
Agenda
4. 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 2017
Invented Cypher -
Leading language
for graph queries
First open source GA
version of a property
graph database
O’Reilly Graph
Database —
first definitive
book for graph
professionals
Introduced
labels to
simplify graph
modeling
openCypher Project
— open sourced
Cypher to create the
de facto standard
Launched
industry’s
first Graph
Platform
Neo4j — The Graph Technology Pioneer
2014
Visual Graph
Query Browser
2016
Causal
Consistency for
Graphs
2018
Solutions,
Platform
products,
Cloud
5. 500+
7/10
12/25
8/10
53K
100+
250+
450+
Adoption
Top retailers globally
Top Financial Firms
Top Software Vendors
Customers Partners
•Creator of Neo4j Graph Platform
•~220 employees
•HQ in Silicon Valley, other offices include
London, Munich, Paris and Malmö
•$80M in funding from Fidelity, Sunstone,
Conor, Creandum, and Greenbridge
Capital
•Over 10M+ downloads
•250+ enterprise subscription customers,
more than half are over $1B in revenue
Company overview
Ecosystem
Startups in program
Enterprise customers
Partners
Meet up members
Events per year
6. Who We Are: The Graph Platform
Neo4j is an enterprise-grade native graph platform that enables you to:
• Store, reveal and query data relationships
• Traverse and analyze any levels of depth in real-time
• Add context and connect new data on the fly
• Performance
• ACID Transactions
• Agility
• Graph Algorithms
6
Designed, built and tested natively
for graphs from the start for:
• Developer Productivity
• Hardware Efficiency
• Global Scale
• Graph Adoption
7. Metcalfe’s Law of Networks
v~n2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
11. Graphs are changing the World
ICIJ used Neo4j to uncovered the world’s
largest journalistic leaks to date, The
Panama Papers, exposing criminals,
corruption and extensive tax evasion.
The US space agency uses Neo4j build a
knowledge graph for their “Lessons
Learned” database, saving over $1M in
improving effectiveness of mission plan.
Ebay ShopBot uses Neo4j to enable
machine learning through knowledge
graphs powering “conversational
commerce.”
Powering Machine LearningInvestigative Journalism Space Exploration
12. Business Problem
• Find relationships between people, accounts, shell
companies and offshore accounts
• Journalists are non-technical
• Biggest “Snowden-Style” document leak ever; 11.5
million documents, 2.6TB of data
Solution and Benefits
• Pulitzer Prize winning investigation resulted in robust
coverage of fraud and corruption
• PM of Iceland & Pakistan resigned, exposed Putin,
Prime Ministers, gangsters, celebrities (Messi)
• Led to assassination of journalist in Malta
Background
• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
(ICIJ), small team of data journalists
• International investigative team specializing in
cross-border crime, corruption and accountability of
power
• Works regularly with leaks and large datasets
ICIJ Panama Papers INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Fraud Detection / Knowledge Graph12
16. Business Problem
• Find relationships between people, corporations,
accounts, shell companies and offshore accounts
• Journalists are non-technical
• 2017 Leak from Appleby tax sheltering law firm
matched 13.4 million account records with public
business registrations data from across Caribbean
Solution and Benefits
• Exposed tax sheltering practices of Apple, Nike
• Revealed hidden connections among politicians and
nations, like Wilbur Ross & Putin’s son in law
• Triggered government tax evasion investigations in US,
UK, Europe, India, Australia, Bermuda, Canada and
Cayman Islands within 2 days.
Background
• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
(ICIJ), Pulitzer Prize winning journalists
• Fourth blockbuster investigation using Neo4j to reveal
connections in text-based, and account-based data
leaked from offshore law firms and government records
about the “1% Elite”
• Appends Neo4j-based, “Offshore Leaks Database”
ICIJ Paradise Papers INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Fraud Detection / Knowledge Graph16
17. Forrester Research has named
Neo4j “Most Dominant Graph
Database”
Part of Gartner’s “Operational
Database” Magic Quadrant
2014-2016
“Neo4j is the clear leader in
the property graph space”
What the Analysts Say
18. 18
“Neo4j continues to dominate
the graph database market.”
Noel Yuhanna
Forrester Market Overview:
Graph Database Vendors
October 2017
69% of companies surveyed are implementing/expanding (51%)
or plan to implement (18%) graph databases within the next 12 months.
23. Index-free adjacency ensures
lightning-fast retrieval of data and
relationships
Native Graph Architecture Advantage
Index free adjacency
Unlike other database models Neo4j
connects data as it is stored
25. Development &
Administration
Analytics
Tooling
Graph
Analytics
Graph
Transactions
Data Integration
Discovery & VisualizationDrivers & APIs
A
I
Neo4j Database
• 50% faster writes
• Real-time transactions
and traversal applications
The Neo4j Graph Platform surrounds Neo4j
Neo4j Desktop, the
developers’ mission
control console
• Free, registered local license
of Enterprise Edition
• APOC library installer
• Algorithm library installer
Data Integration
• Neo4j ETL reveals RDBMS
hidden relationships upon
importing to graph
• Data Importer for fast data
ingestion
• Data Lake integrator
materializes graphs from
Apache Hadoop, Hive and
Spark
Graph Analytics
• Graph Algorithms support
PageRank, Centrality and Path
Finding
• Cypher for Apache Spark
from openCypher.org
supports graph composition
(sub-graphs) and algorithm
chaining
Discovery & Visualization
• Integration with popular
visualization vendors
• Neo4j Browser and custom
visualizations allow graph
exploration
Bolt, GraphQL, Java and more
• Secure, Causal Clustering
• High-speed analytic processing
• On-prem, Docker & cloud delivery
27. 10M+
Downloads
3M+ from Neo4j Distribution
7M+ from Docker
Events
400+
Approximate Number of
Neo4j Events per Year
50k
+
Meetups
Number of Meetup
Members Globally
Neo4j — A Global Ecosystem
250+
Number of Commercial
Customers
Customers
28. Native Graph Database
Technology
Internet-scale, native graph database
which executes connected
workloads faster than any other
database management system.
Neo4j – Fastest Path to Graph Success
Highest Investment in
Customer Success
Largest ecosystem of solutions and
graph based services to reduce
learning curve and time to market
Innovation Network
Highest concentration of Graph
Innovators, Experts, Analysts and
Developers.