Category: Amazon Neptune

For manufacturers it’s important to track transformations and transfers of products as they travel through the supply chain. In the event of quality issues, the ability to quickly and accurately identify a defective product and gather data for root cause analysis and containment is critical. NXP Semiconductors has been working to improve its product traceability […]

December 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Neptune, a fully managed graph database, is purpose built to work with highly connected data such as relationships between customers and products, or between pieces of equipment within a complex industrial plant. Neptune is designed to support highly concurrent online transaction processing (OLTP) over graph data […]

This post was co-written with Tiju Titus John and Deepak Ram from Informatica. In this post, we discuss the significance of data governance and cataloging, and how Informatica’s latest product can help enterprises address challenges in this area of high complexity. We also discuss how Informatica uses a graph database solution based on Amazon Neptune […]

This is a guest post written by Janet M. Six, Senior Product Manager at Tom Sawyer Software. Fraud and corruption affect the lives of millions of people by impacting the financial health of corporations and individuals. Fraud is typically carried out by multiple parties that, by their very nature, strive to remain hidden in plain […]

Automating the management of the compute resources associated with your Amazon Neptune database cluster can save you time and money. The most significant cost when running Neptune for your graph workloads are the compute resources in the database cluster. If you’re also using associated resources such as Amazon SageMaker notebook instances, which you can use […]

Amazon Neptune is purpose-built to store and navigate relationships. This provides advantages over relational databases for use cases like social networking, recommendation engines, and fraud detection, where you need to create relationships between data and quickly query these relationships. At AWS, security is Job Zero. Neptune offers several security features, including network isolation, encryption, and […]

Today, Amazon Neptune announced the general availability of Amazon Neptune Global Database. You can use Neptune Global Database to build graph applications across multiple AWS Regions using the same graph database. Neptune Global Database is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe […]

A relational database is like a multitool: it can do many things, but it’s not perfectly suited to all tasks. For example, suppose a police department has been using a relational database to perform crime data analysis. As their breadth of sources and volume of data grows, they start to experience performance issues in querying […]

Today, we announced the general availability of openCypher query language support with Amazon Neptune. Now you can use openCypher with Neptune to build or migrate graph applications to a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database. You can use the relationships in your data to expand your businesses by building knowledge graphs to link and […]

Amazon Neptune is a graph database service provided by AWS that you can use to build a knowledge graph of relationships among business objects. When building a knowledge graph, what is a suitable model to govern the representation of those relationships? We would prefer not to build our graph on the fly, but rather have […]