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Emil Eifrem
CEO, Neo Technology / Neo4j

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Founder of the Neo4j graph database project and CEO of Neo Technology. Programmer by passion the first 15 years on this planet and by passion & profession the remaining 15. First free software project at age 16. Now mainly focused on spreading the word about the powers of graphs and preaching the demise of tabular solutions everywhere.

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2:35pm Thursday, 07/23/2009

Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases

Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A2

Emil Eifrem (Neo Technology / Neo4j)

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A graph db stores data in a network structure rather than in relational tables. This model is well suited for many web use cases such as tagging, metadata annotations, social networks, wikis and other network-shaped or hierarchical data sets. This talk will introduce Neo4j: a high-performance, transactional open source graph db, which frequently outperforms RDBMSs with >1000x for such use cases. Read more.

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Emil Eifrem CEO, Neo Technology / Neo4j