Relational databases were conceived to digitize paper forms and automate well-structured business processes, and still have their uses. But RDBMS cannot model or store data and its relationships without complexity, which means performance degrades with the increasing number and levels of data relationships and data size. Additionally, new types of data and data relationships require schema redesign that increases time to market.
A native graph database like Neo4j naturally stores, manages, analyzes, and uses data within the context of connections meaning Neo4j provides faster query performance and vastly improved flexibility in handling complex hierarchies than SQL.
This webinar explains why companies are shifting away from RDBMS towards graphs to unlock the business value in their data relationships.
8. SYSTEMS OF RECORD
Relational Database Model
Structured
Pre-computed
Based on rigid rules
SYSTEMS OF ENGAGEMENT
NoSQL Database Model
Highly Flexible
Real-Time Queries
Highly Contextual
15. Speed
“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 RDBMS or other NoSQL
18. Employee
ID
Name PictureRef Building Office
Departme
nt
Title Degree1 Uni1 Major1
4951870 John Doe
s3://acme-
pics/
4951870.p
ng
1200 124A Eng
Software
Engineer II
MS Harvard
Computer
Science
9765207 Jane Smith
s3://acme-
pics/
9765207.p
ng
1300 187D BizOps
Sr
Operations
Associate
BS Stanford Physics
4150915
Shyam
Bhatt
s3://acme-
pics/
4150915.p
ng
45 432C Sales
Enterprise
Sales
Assoc
MBA Penn
Accountin
g
7566243
Kathryn
Bates
s3://acme-
pics/
7566243.p
ng
44 334B Eng
Staff
Software
Engineer
PhD UCB
Computer
Science
27. A Naturally Adaptive Model
A Query Language Designed
for Connectedness
+
=Agility
28. Cypher
Typical Complex SQL Join The Same Query using Cypher
MATCH (boss)-[:MANAGES*0..3]->(sub),
(sub)-[:MANAGES*1..3]->(report)
WHERE boss.name = “John Doe”
RETURN sub.name AS Subordinate,
count(report) AS Total
Project Impact
Less time writing queries
Less time debugging queries
Code that’s easier to read
29. ABOUT ME
• Developed web apps for 5 years
including e-commerce, business
workflow, more.
• Worked at Google for 8 years on
Google Apps, Cloud Platform
• Technologies: Python, Java,
BigQuery, Oracle, MySQL, OAuth
ryan@neo4j.com
@ryguyrg
30. NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
31. NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
GRAPH THINKING:
Real Time Recommendations
VIEWED
VIEWED
BOUGHT
VIEWED
BOUGHT
BOUGHT
BOUGHT
BOUGHT
32. “As the current market leader in graph databases,
and with enterprise features for scalability and
availability, Neo4j is the right choice to meet our
demands.” Marcos Wada
Software Developer, Walmart
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
33. NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
GRAPH THINKING:
Master Data Management
MANAGES
MANAGES
LEADS
REGION
M
ANAG
ES
MANAGES
REGION
LEADS
LEADS
COLLABORATES
34. Neo4j is the heart of Cisco HMP: used for governance
and single source of truth and a one-stop shop for all
of Cisco’s hierarchies.
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
35. NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
GRAPH THINKING:
Master Data Management
Solu%on
Support
Case
Support
Case
Knowledge
Base Ar%cle
Message
Knowledge
Base Ar%cle
Knowledge
Base Ar%cle
Neo4j is the heart of Cisco’s Helpdesk Solution too.
36. NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
GRAPH THINKING:
Fraud Detection
O
PENED_ACCO
UNT
HAS
IS_ISSUED
HAS
LIVES
LIVES
IS_ISSUED
OPENED_ACCOUNT
37. “Graph databases offer new methods of uncovering
fraud rings and other sophisticated scams with a
high-level of accuracy, and are capable of stopping
advanced fraud scenarios in real-time.”
Gorka Sadowski
Cyber Security Expert
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
38. GRAPH THINKING:
Graph Based Search
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
PUBLISH
INCLUDE
INCLUDE
CREATE
CAPTURE
IN
IN
SOURCE
USES
USES
IN
IN
USES
SOURCE
SOURCE
39. Uses Neo4j to manage the digital assets inside of its next
generation in-flight entertainment system.
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
40. NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
BROWSES
CONNECTS
BRIDGES
ROUTES
POWERS
ROUTES
POWERS
POWERS
HOSTS
QUERIES
GRAPH THINKING:
Network & IT-Operations
41. Uses Neo4j for network topology analysis
for big telco service providers
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
42. GRAPH THINKING:
Identity And Access Management
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
TRUSTS
TRUSTS
ID
ID
AUTHENTICATES
AUTHENTICATES
O
W
NS
OWNS
CAN_READ
43. UBS was the recipient of the 2014
Graphie Award for “Best Identify And
Access Management App”
NEO4j USE CASES
Real Time Recommendations
Master Data Management
Fraud Detection
Identity & Access Management
Graph Based Search
Network & IT-Operations
44. Neo4j Adoption by Selected Verticals
SOFTWARE
FINANCIAL
SERVICES
RETAIL
MEDIA &
BROADCASTING
SOCIAL
NETWORKS
TELECOM HEALTHCARE
45. AGENDA
• Use Cases
• SQL Pains
• Building a Neo4j Application
• Moving from RDBMS -> Graph Models
• Walk through an Example
• Creating Data in Graphs
• Querying Data
61. • Complex to model and store relationships
• Performance degrades with increases in data
• Queries get long and complex
• Maintenance is painful
SQL Pains
62. • Easy to model and store relationships
• Performance of relationship traversal remains constant with
growth in data size
• Queries are shortened and more readable
• Adding additional properties and relationships can be done on
the fly - no migrations
Graph Gains
82. RDBMS to Graph Options
MIGRATE
ALL DATA
MIGRATE
SUBSET
DUPLICATE
SUBSET
Non-Graph Queries Graph Queries
Graph Queries Non-Graph Queries
All Queries
Rela3onal
Database
Graph
Database
Application
Application
Application
Non Graph
Data
All Data
104. Who do people report to?
MATCH
(e:Employee)<-[:REPORTS_TO]-(sub:Employee)
RETURN
e.employeeID AS managerID,
e.firstName AS managerName,
sub.employeeID AS employeeID,
sub.firstName AS employeeName;
128. 3 Steps to Creating the Graph
IMPORT NODES CREATE INDEXES IMPORT RELATIONSHIPS
129. Importing Nodes
// Create customers
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/developer-resources/
gh-pages/data/northwind/customers.csv" AS row
CREATE (:Customer {companyName: row.CompanyName, customerID:
row.CustomerID, fax: row.Fax, phone: row.Phone});
// Create products
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/developer-resources/
gh-pages/data/northwind/products.csv" AS row
CREATE (:Product {productName: row.ProductName, productID:
row.ProductID, unitPrice: toFloat(row.UnitPrice)});
130. Importing Nodes
// Create suppliers
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/developer-resources/
gh-pages/data/northwind/suppliers.csv" AS row
CREATE (:Supplier {companyName: row.CompanyName, supplierID:
row.SupplierID});
// Create employees
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/developer-resources/
gh-pages/data/northwind/employees.csv" AS row
CREATE (:Employee {employeeID:row.EmployeeID, firstName:
row.FirstName, lastName: row.LastName, title: row.Title});
131. Creating Relationships
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/developer-resources/
gh-pages/data/northwind/orders.csv" AS row
MATCH (order:Order {orderID: row.OrderID})
MATCH (customer:Customer {customerID: row.CustomerID})
MERGE (customer)-[:PURCHASED]->(order);
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/developer-resources/
gh-pages/data/northwind/products.csv" AS row
MATCH (product:Product {productID: row.ProductID})
MATCH (supplier:Supplier {supplierID: row.SupplierID})
MERGE (supplier)-[:SUPPLIES]->(product);
132. Creating Relationships
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-
contrib/developer-resources/gh-pages/data/northwind/orders.csv" AS row
MATCH (order:Order {orderID: row.OrderID})
MATCH (product:Product {productID: row.ProductID})
MERGE (order)-[pu:INCLUDES]->(product)
ON CREATE SET pu.unitPrice = toFloat(row.UnitPrice), pu.quantity =
toFloat(row.Quantity);
USING PERIODIC COMMIT
LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-
contrib/developer-resources/gh-pages/data/northwind/orders.csv" AS row
MATCH (order:Order {orderID: row.OrderID})
MATCH (employee:Employee {employeeID: row.EmployeeID})
MERGE (employee)-[:SOLD]->(order);
140. “We found Neo4j to be literally thousands of times faster
than our prior MySQL solution, with queries that require
10 to 100 times less code. Today, Neo4j provides eBay
with functionality that was previously impossible.”
Volker Pacher
Senior Developer