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.