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Webinar: Neo4j and real world scenarios (in collaboration with Capgemini)

Join us for a Webinar on May 19

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Graph databases are designed to deal with big amounts of complex data structures in a transactional and performant manner. This Webinar is going to give an introduction to the data model and the Neo4j Graph  Database, and walk you through some of the application domains where graphs are used in real deployments. Title: Neo4j and real world scenarios (in collaboration with Capgemini) Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011 Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time 5.00 PM - 6.00 PM CEST Other Times

Neo Technology announces Neo4j Spatial

by Peter Neubauer,
Neo Technology

The FOSS4G Conference, Barcelona and Malmö, Sweden - September 13, 2010 - Neo Technology together with AmanziTel and Cloudmade announces Neo4j Spatial, the first and only geospatial component for a graph database. Geospatial data is naturally suited to graph representation and storage in a high performance graph database like Neo4j. The Neo4j Spatial project supports the use of geographic data by providing utilities that simplify and support advanced capabilities like:

• Storage of geographic features like points, lines and polygons as graphs
• Indexing and querying based on location with R-trees, Quad-trees and other structures
• Spatial operations for GIS and Location Based Services
• Import/Export from existing industry standard formats like shapefiles
• Exposure of any Neo4j traversal as dynamic layers with points, multilines or polygons
• Construction of geographic operations from arbitrary combinations of traversals and relevant properties in the Neo4j graph
• Support for well known libraries and applications such as:
• Geotools - providing Geo-APIs for Java
• uDIG - an RCP-based Desktop GIS system
• Geoserver - serving WMS, WFS, KML and other spatial web standards
• OpenStreetMap - the worlds largest Wiki for spatial data.

"We are very excited to team up with Neo Technology, the creators of Neo4j Spatial. The OpenStreetMap dataset can be modeled as a huge graph structure. By loading it into the Neo4j Spatial graph, we expect to be able to extract exciting new data and relationships based on the wealth of geographically connected content in OpenStreetMap, the world's biggest, crowd-sourced database. These capabilities will surface in the coming months in various Cloudmade products and services" said Jim Brown, CTO Cloudmade.

Neo4j Spatial is already in use by a growing community of partners and projects including:

• Cloudmade, providing premium services on top of the OpenStreetMap dataset
• AWE mobile network data analysis by AmanziTel
• Future Position X - advancing the public use of spatial data in Sweden

This is just the first step. While Neo4j Spatial is already powerful, we will continue to apply graph structures to complex spatial problems like routing, topology analysis and spatial statistics and move GIS into the mainstream of Open Source development.

About Neo Technology

Neo Technology is the developer of Neo4j, the world’s leading open source graph database. In 24/7 production since 2003, Neo4j is available in open source under AGPLv3 and commercial license terms. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com.

   

Neo Technology Announces Version 1.0 of the Neo4j Graph Database

Malmö, Sweden - February 16, 2010 - Neo Technology announced today the general availability of version 1.0 of Neo4j, the world's leading graph database. Neo4j is a high performance database for complex data used by leading Web companies; with pre-1.0 versions in 24/7 production since 2003. Neo4j version 1.0 is immediately available both under a free open source license from www.neo4j.org, and under a supported commercial license from Neo Technology.

"Like many other successful Web 2.0 companies, Box.net has seen its share of pressure to deliver a high performance customer experience on a relational database like MySQL. Having experienced Neo4j first hand, I have to say that it is a god send. Neo4j significantly outperforms MySQL, with a drastically simplified programming model." said Sam Ghods, VP of Technology with cloud content management provider Box.net.

"We have seen that the Neo4j graph database approach to implementing enterprise-scale projects can yield significant cost benefits and clearly differentiate our clients from their competitors," said Jim Webber, PhD, Director of Professional Services with global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks.

"We have made tremendous progress over the last few months. We have a large, vibrant and rapidly growing Neo4j community with hundreds of Neo4j-based projects under development. Our customer base is steadily growing and we are very humbled by the fantastic results they are achieving with Neo4j," said Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo Technology.

About The Neo4j Graph Database

Neo4j, the world’s leading graph database, stores data in graphs rather than relational tables. This makes Neo4j especially suitable for applications that handle data with complex relationships, like social networks, life sciences, intelligence and financial applications. Neo4j offers users:

• extremely high performance on deep traversals and mining of complex data,
• rapid schema evolution for changing business requirements, and
• simplified development through perfect match between domain model and database schema.

These advantages make Neo4j the most effective database choice by many social networking services and other applications that manage ever more complex business data.

About Neo Technology

Neo Technology is the developer of Neo4j, the world’s leading open source graph database. In 24/7 production since 2003, Neo4j is available in open source under AGPLv3 and commercial license terms. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com.

Neo Technology Announces $2.5M Seed Funding for World's Leading Graph Database

Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners Fund Open Source Database Company

NoSQL East Conference, Atlanta, GA and Malmö, Sweden – October 28, 2009 -

Neo Technology, developer of Neo4j, the world’s leading open source graph database, today announced that it has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to boost Neo4j’s presence in the emerging graph database market. The funds will be used to accelerate product development and expand sales and marketing efforts. The investment round was co-led by Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners.

The company board of directors will be joined by Magnus Christerson, Vice President of Intentional Software Corp, Nikolaj Nyholm, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Polar Rose, Sami Ahvenniemi, Partner at Conor Venture Partners as well as Johan Svensson, co-founder and CTO of Neo Technology.

"Following in the footsteps of MySQL - another Swedish open source database company – Neo Technology needs a strong US presence to succeed”, states Magnus Christerson. “Using my own experience transitioning a Swedish software startup to the US, I look forward helping Neo Technology establish that US presence.”

"The database market is rapidly changing. The need for alternatives to traditional SQL databases is suggested by three facts: 1) the increasing pain of using the 35 year old SQL model, 2) companies like Google and Facebook building their own database technology and 3) the exploding NoSQL movement. Sunstone Capital is pleased to invest in one of the most promising NoSQL alternatives”, said Christian Lindegård Jepsen, Partner in Sunstone Capital.

"Conor is excited to invest in this excellent team with solid technology that has showed some early customer wins in this rapidly growing database market segment”, said Sami Ahvenniemi, Partner in Conor. “We look forward to the continued growth of Neo Technology's open source and commercial user bases."

"I am very happy to have Sunstone, Conor and our new board members join us to build Neo Technology into a global success”, comments Emil Eifrem, co-founder and CEO of Neo Technology. “This investment will accelerate our product development and ability to serve customers worldwide.”

About The Neo4j Graph Database

Neo4j, the world’s leading graph database, stores data in graphs rather than relational tables. This makes Neo4j especially suitable for applications that handle data with complex relationships, like social networks, life sciences, intelligence and financial applications. Neo4j offers users:

• extremely high performance on deep traversals and mining of complex data,
• rapid schema evolution for changing business requirements, and
• simplified development through perfect match between domain model and database schema.

These advantages make Neo4j the most effective database choice by many social networking services and other applications that manage ever more complex business data.

For further information, please contact:

Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo Technology, Tel. +1 (206) 403-8808 (US) or +46 733 462 271 (Europe), emil.eifrem (at) neotechnology.com

Christian Lindegård Jepsen, Partner, Sunstone Capital, Tel. +45 25 36 39 63, jepsen (at) sunstonecapital.com

Sami Ahvenniemi, Partner, Conor Venture Partners, Tel. +358 40 560 2734, sami.ahvenniemi (at) conor.vc

About Neo Technology

Neo Technology is the developer of Neo4j, the world’s leading open source graph database. In 24/7 production since 2003, Neo4j is available in open source under AGPLv3 and commercial license terms. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com.

About Sunstone Capital

Sunstone Capital is a Nordic-based early stage venture capital investor with over EUR 400 million in funds under management. Sunstone focuses on developing and expanding early-stage Technology and Life Science companies . For more information, please visitwww.sunstonecapital.com.

About Conor Venture Partners

Venture Partners is a leading early-stage technology VC investing in Finland, Sweden and the Baltics. Conor invests in disruptive technologies in ICT, embedded systems, electronics, new materials and optics. For more information, please visit www.conor.vc.

Emil will be presenting tomrrow at NoSQL East, sponsored by Neo Techology.