Bruno Ungermann, Neo4j

1. Herzlich Willkommen!
bruno.ungermann@neo4j.com
Neue Lösungen für Life Sciences und die
Pharmaindustrie mit Graphdatenbanken
• Einführung in Graphdatenbanken und Neo4j
• Beispiele Use Cases
• European Neo4j GraphDay: Health & LifeSciences, Munich, Nov 20

2. Complexity

3. Connectedness

4. Bootcamp

5. Domain Model Logistics Process

6. Traditional Approach: Fixed Schema, Tables

7. Graph Model: Nodes & Relationships
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8. Intuitiveness

9. Flexibility: no fixed schema

10. Flexibility & Agility

11. “We found Neo4j to be literally thousands of times
faster than our prior MySQL solution, with queries
that require 10-100 times less code. Today, Neo4j
provides eBay with functionality that was previously
impossible.” - Volker Pacher, Senior Developer
“Minutes to milliseconds” performance
Queries up to 1000x faster than other tested database types
Speed

12. Graph Based Success

13. Neo4j - The Graph Company
500+
7/10
12/25
8/10
53K+
100+
250+
450+
Adoption
Top Retail Firms
Top Financial Firms
Top Software Vendors
Customers Partners
• Creator of the Neo4j Graph Platform
• ~250 employees
• HQ in Silicon Valley, other offices include
London, Munich, Paris and Malmö
(Sweden)
• $160M in funding from Morgan Stanley,
Fidelity, Sunstone, Conor, Creandum, and
Greenbridge Capital
• Over 10M+ downloads,
• 250+ enterprise subscription customers
with over half with >$1B in revenue
Ecosystem
Startups in program
Enterprise customers
Partners
Meet up members
Events per year
Industry’s Largest Dedicated Investment in Graphs

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• Record “Cyber Monday” sales
• About 35M daily transactions
• Each transaction is 3-22 hops
• Queries executed in 4ms or less
• Replaced IBM Websphere commerce
• 300M pricing operations per day
• 10x transaction throughput on half the
hardware compared to Oracle
• Replaced Oracle database
• Large postal service with over 500k
employees
• Neo4j routes 10M+ packages daily at peak,
with peaks of 5,000+ routing operations per
second.
Handling Large Graph Work Loads for Enterprises
Real-time promotion
recommendations
Marriott’s Real-time
Pricing Engine
Handling Package
Routing in Real-Time

15. Discrete Data
Minimally
connected data
Neo4j is designed for data relationships
Other NoSQL
Relational
DBMS
Neo4j Graph DB
Connected Data
Focused on
Data Relationships
Development Benefits
Easy model maintenance
Easy query
Deployment Benefits
Ultra high performance
Minimal resource usage
Use the Right Database for the Right Job

16. How Neo4j Fits — Common Architecture Patterns
From Disparate Silos
To Cross-Silo Connections
From Tabular Data
To Connected Data
From Data Lake Analytics
to Real-Time Operations

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Common Graph Technology Use Cases
Network & IT Operations
Application Management
Meta Data
Management
Real-Time
Recommendations
Identity & Access
Management, Security
Knowledge
Management
Fraud Detection, AML
Compliance, GDPR

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Biological and Medical Knowledge in heterogeneous networks

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Biological and Medical Knowledge in heterogeneous networks

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Medical Research
Background
• Italian research center that analyzes cancer
samples from around the world
• Provides state-of-the-art therapeutic and
diagnostic cancer services
Business Problem
• Develop a tool that provides cancer data
insights, tracks workflows and is available to
external researchers
• Relational databases didn’t provide adequate
flexibility
Solution and Benefits
• Easily find complex research data relationships
• Develop complex semantics for genomic
knowledge
• Cancer research is accessible to external
scientists

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Pharmaceutical Research
Business Problem
• Seeking to automate phenotype, compound
and protein cell behaviour research by using
previously documented research more
effectively
• Text mining for research elements like DNA
strings, proteins, RNA, chemicals and diseases
Solution and Benefits
• Found ways to identify compound interaction
behaviour from millions of rearch documents
• Relations between biological entities can be
identified and validated by biological experts
• Still very challenging to keep up to date, add
genomics data, and find a breakthrough
Background
• 5 year long drug discovery research
• Parse & Navigate over 25 Million scientific papers
• Sourced from National Library of Medicine and
tagging of “Medical Subject Headers” (MeSH tags)

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Agriculture
Background
• One of the world’s largest agribusinesses
• Founded in 1901 and based in St. Louis
• Grew from pioneer to leader in genetically
modifying plants and building related businesses
• Among the first companies to genetically modify
a plant cell (1983)
Business Problem
• Although the data volume was not huge, (200
GB, 800 Mln nodes, Bln relationships) queries
from connected data sets using traditional
technology ran for long durations. In some
cases, Monsanto had to stop them
• Shorten new product development pipeline by
one year through “yield testing in the lab”
• Efficiently impute genotypes of newly bred
populations from analysis of decades of genetic
ancestry data

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Large Chemical Company: R&D Knowledge Solution
Background
• Provide new ways to search and interact with
internal R&D Knowledge and published scientific
information, highly connected at fact level to
make knowledge actionable
• Thousands of employees in R&D
• Chemicals, Reactions Biologicals, physical-
chemical properties
Company
• 10.000+ employees in R&D
• 70+ R&D locations
• 800 new patents
• 3.000 R&D projects
• 2 Bln R&D budget

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Large Pharmaceutical Company: Enterprise Search
Background
• Personalized Search for 100.000+ employees
• 300.000.000 docs, pptx, pdf, html
• 1 Mln products
• 130.000 projects
• Sources Exchange, Sharepoint, Office 365,
Oracle, Hana, Blogs, Active Directory …..
Background
• 150.000+ employees, 300 locations

26. White Board Session