Peek into Neo4j Product Strategy and Roadmap

Product Strategy & Roadmap
Anurag Tandon
VP Product Management, Neo4j

The world is changing
As things get more connected, data does too.
Neo4j Inc. All rights reserved 2023
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The world is changing
Organizations need to transform from data
to insights to knowledge
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KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS
Enable various use cases across enterprises
Transactions
graph
Consumer
graph
Parts
graph
Digital Twin
graph
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Top 3 trends impacting developers
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Market Trends:
1. Cloud (multi) adoption is accelerating
2. Most use cases blend transactional and
analytical capabilities
3. Enterprise interest in LLM/GenAI is
through the roof but adoption is limited
due to hallucination

Product Vision
Cloud First With Ecosystem Focus
Cloud Scale with Enterprise Security, Governance & Compliance
Trusted Fundamentals
Most advanced Graph Algorithms
with in memory projections
Enable intelligent GenAI apps with
Knowledge graphs + LLMs
Integrate with GenAI platforms
Cloud native service integrations to
simplify application development
Fully Managed Database for 0
operations experience so developers can
focus on building applications
Get started with Free Database
Self-service capabilities that enable
developers to improve time to value
Simplify APIs and tools to improve
productivity of developers
Enhanced developer tooling
Cloud First
HOW
WE
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EXECUTING
seconds to sign up
minutes to wow/data
days to value
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Premium & trusted cloud-native graph database and analytics platform that is cross cloud,
easy to use & AI Enabler for developers, data analysts and data scientists
AI Enabler
Ease of Use
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Neo4j Database
Trusted Fundamentals
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Graph Schema: New constraints on nodes, relationships and
properties: Unique relationship property, Relationship key,
Property data types
Graph Pattern Matching: Improved expressivity of graph
navigation with quantiﬁed graph patterns. More powerful and
performant syntax to navigate and traverse your graph.
Call in Transactions: for batched import, control transaction
sizes from Cypher.
Incremental Importer: Ultra-high speed method of loading data
incrementally (10-100x faster than transactional).
Backup & Recovery: Existing full backups can be updated with
differential data instead of recreating a new full backup, saving
a large amount of storage. Administrators can now execute
point-in-time restore. API to ease operability
Neo4j Ops Manager: To monitor Neo4j deployments
Neo4j 5.x new capabilities
Database Enhancements GRAPH PATTERN MATCHING
GRAPH SCHEMA
DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP &
POINT IN TIME RECOVERY
OFFLINE INCREMENTAL IMPORTER

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Autonomous Clustering
Easy, Automated Horizontal Scale-Out
Fabric
Federated Queries and Sharded Graphs
A signiﬁcant set of improvements in Neo4j clustering architecture, with
more features and control over the use of infrastructure resources.
Scalability, allocation / reallocation, service elasticity, load balancing,
automatic routing are some of the main features added to the existing
architecture.
Query multiple business graphs
Chain queries for sophisticated real-time analysis
Hybrid cloud queries
Unbounded Scalability To Harness All Data
1. Admin specifies the
databases, primaries for Fault
Tolerance and secondaries for
read scalability
2. Autonomous Cluster allocates
them to suitable servers
3. Admin can add or remove
servers, and then
reallocate the databases across
the cluster

– Leverage customer hints to create sharding
strategy
– Enable creation of schema/metadata for sharding
– Automatically increase shards based on customer
conﬁguration
Mapping
Sharding
Rules
– Create Fabric planner to push data and queries to
right shards
– Overtime support distributed transactions &
proxy nodes
– Make it available in Aura
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Coming 2024+
Neo4j new capabilities
Fabric Auto Sharding

Challenge: Analytical queries are graph global,
not anchored to particular nodes, and traversing
many parts of the graph. Analytical Queries can
benefit from multi threading.
Solution: With Parallel Runtime, a single query is
executed concurrently on multiple cores,
providing a better option for a significant number
of use cases.
Benefits: Faster insights for analytical applications
& enables transactional and analytical processing in
one database
Parallel Runtime: Speed up analytical query up to 100x
Announcing

Parallel Runtime Speedup
Up to 100x faster analytical queries by adding CPU cores
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Analytical query from StackOverflow dataset:
For all questions for n months from x date, return
● the tags
● the number of distinct users posting the
questions
● the maximum score for the questions
● for all answered questions, the average
number of answers
● the number of distinct questions

Challenge: Need database change tracking to enable swift
mission-critical actions, cloud database integrations, avoid
disruption to production system, and ensure data traceability.
Solution:
● State-of-the-art approach uses transaction log based
Change Data Capture (CDC),
● Capable of running in two modes; full where all information
on a node or relationship is sent if there is a change, or diff
mode where only the information that changed is sent,
● A Cypher command that enables CDC on a named
database. A procedural API that can be called by partner
applications or those developed by customers
● Used by Neo4j Connector for Apache Kafka/Confluent.
Benefits: Confidence in Neo4j as db system of record, Real-time
streaming to target systems to support event-driven mission
critical decisions, Audit and compliance
Announcing
Change Data Capture: Automated real-time change tracking

Cloud First
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FAST FLEXIBLE RELIABLE EASY
● Automated Upgrades, Maintenance
● Scalable and Elastic, On-Demand
● Enterprise-Grade Security
● High Availability
● Simple Pricing, Consumption-Based
● Procure through Aura Console or via
Cloud Marketplace
Neo4j Aura
Fully Managed Cloud Service on all clouds

● Ubiquitous availability of Aura in all major
clouds: GCP, AWS, Azure
● Enterprise-ready Aura
﹣ SOC II Type 2 compliance
﹣ Better DevOps with AuraDB APIs
﹣ Easier RBAC conﬁguration via Aura
console
﹣ Better observability with security log
forwarding (EAP) and Performance
metrics forwarding (EAP)
﹣ Private Link
﹣ CMEK-Coming soon
Neo4j Aura
2023 Key Capabilities

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Cloud Data Ecosystem
Plugs Into Your Existing Ecosystem

Self Service (Ease of Use)
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Self Service Tooling And Developer Experience
Comprehensive set of tools for self-service
ops manager
data importer
Visualize and explore your data
Query editor and results visualizer
Code-free data loader and modeler
NeoDash (BI)
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Self Service Enhancements
1. Data Import: Model & Load Your First Graph:
Neo4j Importer
2. Bloom: Explore Graph Algorithms, Time Slicer,
Cypher Actions, Search improvements
3. Browser/Query-Better favorites, history +
visualization
4. Uniﬁed Developer Experience with Neo4j
Workspace
Roadmap (2024)
1. Simpliﬁed import from various relational and
cloud systems
2. New Graph Visualization Library
3. Improved Cypher Development Support-
VS Code Extension
Comprehensive set of tools for self-service

Better client surface for Developers and Data Scientists
Neo4j GraphQL Library
● Build low code API with GraphQL Library & Toolbox
● GraphQL support has enabled 1B queries in Aura
Simpliﬁed Drivers API for Neo4j
● Simpliﬁed API Driver object - driver.executeQuery() -
returns results directly into native formats
● Driver APIs automates various capabilities like Sessions,
Transaction Functions, Bookmarks
GDS Native Python client
● Wraps the Neo4j python driver (dataframe support)
● Run GDS algorithms just like you would any python
function
● run_cypher lets you execute Cypher statements
● Pythonic features: support for graph and model objects

AI Enabler
Graph Data Science & Generative AI
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Graph Data Science
Make Sense Of Data Relationships
Machine Learning Pipeline
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Explore the hidden patterns and features in your data
What’s important? What’s unusual? What’s next?

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Graph Data Science
Make Sense Of Data Relationships
Over 65 efﬁcient, parallelized algorithms. Iterate fast with different data sets & models,
version trained models.
Bring the context of your connected data into
a format that other pipelines can ingest.
The Largest Catalog of
Graph Algorithms
Native Graph Catalog and
Analytics Workspace
Graph Vector Embeddings
for Machine Learning

Topological Sort Algorithm
Identify dependencies
Longest Path Algorithm
Identify critical paths
Knowledge Graph
Embeddings
Discover missing relationships
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Key Use Cases:
GenAI, Semantic Search Recommendations,
Life Sciences
Key Use Cases:
Supply Chain and Network Routing
Key Use Cases:
Supply Chain, Inventory Management,
Resource Allocation, and Build Management
Announcing
Graph Data Science
What’s New in Graph Data Science Library

Step 1: Build a graph Step 2: Export your graph using
the Python client
Step 3: Train KGE model
with PyKeen, DGL, Pytorch
Geometric, etc.
Step 4: Import embeddings
created from KGE training as
properties in your graph
Step 5: Create candidate
relationships of possible
connections using KNN
Step 6: Check node pairs
for missing connections
Announcing
Graph Data Science
Discover Missing Relationships with KGE

AI Enabler
Graph Data Science & Generative AI
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Lack of enterprise domain knowledge
Limited input sizes for ﬁne tuning
Inability to verify answers
Sensitive to prompt phrasing & injection
Hallucinates
ETHICAL & DATA BIAS CONCERNS
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Powering Generative AI Apps
What GenAI can’t do!

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Knowledge
Facts
Context
Language
Statistics
Creativity
KGs LLMs
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BETTER TOGETHER
Generative AI, LLMs and Knowledge Graphs
Growing conviction that not only will the adoption of GenAI and LLMs grow
substantially but also that we have an essential role to play

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Better Pipeline With LLMs + Neo4j

New Capabilities
● Vector Search & Storage
-Enabling RAG (Retrieval Augmented
Generation)
● Cypher: Real Time integration with
Embedding APIs & LLM Models
● Integrations with LLM Platforms: OpenAI +
MS Azure OpenAI, VertexAI, AWS Bedrock
● Integration with GenAI Frameworks:
LangChain, LlamaIndex
● GenAI Dev Stack: Docker + Neo4j +
Langchain + Ollama
Roadmap (2024+)
● Co-Pilot in Browser for autocomplete &
cypher generation
● Bloom & NeoDash NL Integration
Neo4j GenAI Innovations and Roadmap

Recap
New Announcements
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Product Roadmap Recap
Driving Innovation with Neo4j for Developers
Knowledge
Graph Embeddings (NEW)
Longest Path Algorithm (NEW)
Topological Sort Algorithm(NEW)
Aura Enterprise Database on
all clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure)
SOC II Type 2 compliance,
AuraDB APIs, RBAC
configuration
Better observability with
security log forwarding
Performance metrics
forwarding (EAP)
Private Link & CMEK (Coming
soon)
Unified Developer
Experience with
Workspace
Self-service Data Import
GraphQL Support
Simplified Drivers API
Bloom support for GDS
algorithms
GDS Python API
Cloud First AI Enabler
Ease of Use
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Parallel Runtime for faster
analytical Queries (NEW)
Change Data Capture better
data integration (NEW)
Autonomous clustering and
Fabric for limitless scalability
Graph Schema, Improved
Backup recovery, incremental
import
Neo4j Ops Manager for
managing databases
Trusted
Fundamentals
Vector Search (NEW)
Real Time integration with
Embedding APIs & LLM Models
Integrations with OpenAI + MS
Azure OpenAI, VertexAI, AWS
Bedrock, Langchain, LlamaIndex
GDS
GenAI

Thank You
Anurag Tandon
anurag.tandon@neo4j.com

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