NoSQL, The Web And The Enterprise
Emil Eifrem, the CEO of Neo Technology and co-founder of the Neo4j project waxes eloquently after Neo Technology raises $10M+. (I can wax too but it would probably be Emil’s car.)
I can’t believe it’s already been two years since we raised our seed round! Oct 2009 saw a nascent NOSQL movement and Neo Technology as a two man band in Malmö, Sweden. Today, NOSQL is exploding and Neo has grown to a 25 person orchestra across two continents and five countries.
During these two years we've released Neo4j 1.0 (after 10 years of development!), coined the NOSQL = Not Only SQL expansion at nosql east, heard the CTO of Amazon proclaim that “Neo4j absolutely ROCKS,” watched Facebook tell the world that it’s all about graphs, co-founded the Spring Data project to provide excellent support for NOSQL in the world’s most popular Enterprise Java middleware, changed our open source licensing to enable graph database ubiquity, made several kickass releases and started putting graph databases in the cloud.
But all of that is dwarfed by the amazing things our customers and community have done with Neo4j! Neo4j downloads grew by 10x last year and this year our growth has accelerated even more. Neo4j is clearly taking off.
Read the three things that stand out for enterprise users.
Here are three that I think could carry Neo4j into the future:
- “You like tomato and I like tomahto:” Query by how the user identifies the subject of the query, and all information in the enterprise (or beyond?) returned.
- Deduplication of finding: “How many lawyers on average at X per hour find the same document in your files?” (Or insert staff, etc., each finding costs N?.)
- Capturing Serendipity: You accidentally find a useful (critical?) document. Will you be able to find it again?
BTW, congratulations to Neo Techology on its fund raising success!