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To everyone @ Neo4j, on behalf of the Graphistry team, big congrats! This may help non-graph folks understand the community a bit. Neo4j has a bunch of cool bi
by lmeyerov 8y ago
To everyone @ Neo4j, on behalf of the Graphistry team, big congrats!
This may help non-graph folks understand the community a bit. Neo4j has a bunch of cool bits, and it's been a pleasure watching them bring two specific "aha!" moments to customers. Our tech helps teams build scalable visual workflows that include visual graph, so we're often brought in near the beginning of a graph project, and have repeatedly seen two situations where a DB at Neo4j's quality shines:
1. Performance: A teams starts using their existing data stores -- SQL, Splunk, etc. They'll get quite far. Often, however, they will hit some query that just cannot perform. E.g., for two bank accounts, all paths between them. For different DBs and workloads, these can be different things.
2. Ease: Asking for something like a 360 view around a device, user, patient, account, etc. is hard in sQL - you don't know what column, table, etc. to look at. Or imagine the above shortest-paths query. Cypher makes writing this stuff EASY, so in a world where a lot of people can barely do SQL, that's a superpower.
Neo4j has been broadening by entering the scaleout world, app dev world, and adding multi-modal & ML capabilities, which are all important things and help grow the eco-system. Congrats again!