INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AWS today announced that its Neptune graph database, which made its debut during the platform annual re:Invent conference last November, is
The launch of Neptune was one of the dozensof announcements the company made during its annual developer event, so you can be forgiven if
you missed it.
Neptune supports graph APIs for both TinkerPop Gremlin and SPARQL, making it compatible with a variety of applications
AWS notes that it built the service to recover from failures within 30 seconds andpromises 99.99 percent availability.
As the world has
become more connected, applications that navigate large, connected data sets are increasingly more critical for customers,&said Raju
Gulabani, vice president, Databases, Analytics, and Machine Learning atAWS
&We are delighted to give customers ahigh-performance graph database servicethat enables developers to query billions of relationships in
milliseconds using standard APIs, making it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected data sets.
Standard use cases
for Neptune are social networking applications, recommendation engines, fraud detection tools and networking applications that need to map
the complex topology of an enterprise infrastructure.
Neptune already has a couple of high-profile users, including Samsung, AstraZeneca,
Intuit, Siemens, Person, Thomson Reuters and Amazon own Alexa team.&Amazon Neptune is a key part of the toolkit we use to continually expand
Alexa knowledge graph for our tens of millions of Alexa customers—it just Day 1 and we&re excited to continue our work with the AWS team
to deliver even better experiences for our customers,& said David Hardcastle, director of Amazon Alexa, in today announcement.
The service
is now available in AWS&sUnited States East (N
Virginia), United States East (Ohio), United States West (Oregon) and EU (Ireland) regions, with others coming online in the
future.
Amazon introduces an AWS graph database service called Amazon Neptune
