Amazon Neptune, a fast and reliable graph
database, makes it easy for customers to build applications on
highly connected datasets
Thousands of customers, including Samsung
Electronics, Pearson, Intuit, Siemens, AstraZeneca, FINRA,
LifeOmic, Blackfynn, and Amazon Alexa, participated in the preview,
building new graph applications and battle-testing their production
workloads
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), announced general availability of Amazon Neptune, a
fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service. Amazon
Neptune efficiently stores and navigates highly connected data,
allowing developers to create sophisticated, interactive graph
applications that can query billions of relationships with
millisecond latency. In the preview, customers used Neptune to
build social networks, recommendation engines, fraud detection,
knowledge graphs, drug discovery applications, and more. With
Amazon Neptune there are no upfront costs, licenses, or commitments
required; customers pay only for the Neptune resources they use. To
get started with Amazon Neptune, visit
https://aws.amazon.com/neptune.
For many years, the relational database was the only option
available to application developers. While relational databases are
great for applications that need referential integrity for highly
structured data, today’s developers need a variety of databases to
serve the needs of modern applications. Just as some modern
applications need to store petabytes of unstructured data, access
it with sub-millisecond latency, process millions of requests per
second, and scale to support millions of users all around the
world, others need to quickly understand and navigate billions of
relationships between highly connected data. Applications (e.g.
social applications, recommendation engines, and fraud detection)
that try to navigate these relationships using SQL queries require
join operations that quickly become complex, error prone, and slow
to execute. Graph databases are becoming more attractive because
they store the relationships between highly connected data as
graphs, enabling applications to quickly query these relationships.
However, many of today’s open source or community edition graph
databases can’t offer the performance, reliability or scalability
of commercial databases, while commercial options are often
expensive, or complex to set up and maintain. Now, with Amazon
Neptune, developers can query connected datasets with the speed and
simplicity of a graph database, while benefiting from the
scalability, security, durability, and availability of an AWS
managed graph database service. The Amazon Neptune query processing
engine is optimized for both of the leading graph models, Property
Graph and W3C's RDF, and their associated query languages, Apache
TinkerPop Gremlin and RDF/SPARQL, providing customers the
flexibility to choose the right approach based on their specific
graph use case. And, as a customer’s data increases, Neptune
storage scales automatically, without downtime or performance
degradation.
“The days of modern technology companies using relational
databases for all of their workloads have come and gone,” said Raju
Gulabani, Vice President, Databases, Analytics, and Machine
Learning at Amazon Web Services, Inc. “As the world has become more
connected, applications that navigate large, connected datasets are
increasingly more critical for customers. We are delighted to give
customers a high-performance graph database service that 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 datasets.”
Amazon Neptune is highly available and durable, automatically
replicating six copies of data across three Availability Zones and
continuously backing up data to Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3). Amazon Neptune is designed to offer greater than 99.99
percent availability and automatically detects and recovers from
most database failures in less than 30 seconds. Amazon Neptune also
provides advanced security capabilities, including network security
through Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and encryption at rest
using AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
Pearson, the world’s learning company, helps more than 75
million people each year embrace their passion and ambition for
learning new skills. “Our goal is to significantly reduce
complexity in several of our key systems and to standardize how our
organization approaches heavily connected, graph data,” said Josh
Walton, Senior Solutions Architect of Pearson. “We’ve long wanted
to use a graph database, but until we evaluated Neptune, nothing
fit our needs due to performance or cost. We tried Neptune during
the preview and the promise it shows is exciting. Our performance
test results have been exceptional and the pricing is right. We
expect to be able to simplify our existing architecture and
maintain current SLAs while also gaining the ability to scale
beyond our current capacity, and speed up development time with all
the packaged, fully managed goodies that come along with AWS
managed services.”
Blackfynn is a life sciences software startup formed to change
how Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, and
other neurological diseases are treated. The multidisciplinary team
has deep roots in medicine, clinical development, neuroscience,
engineering, data science and machine learning. “We look forward to
using Amazon Neptune as an integral part of our data platform,”
said Chris Baglieri, SVP of Engineering at Blackfynn. “Neptune will
allow us to connect the dots between genomics, pathology,
neurochemistry, device and patient clinical data, efficiently and
at scale, helping us drive breakthrough discoveries.”
Intuit is powering prosperity for millions of small businesses
and self-employed customers around the world. “We are exploring
Amazon Neptune for heavy lifting of our Graph infrastructure
management, freeing our engineering team to focus on optimizing the
knowledge graph for customer-centric business problems,” said
Sandeep Uttamchandani, Chief Data Architect, Intuit Small Business
Group and Self-Employed Group. “Neptune is promising as a
secure and highly available Graph database available out of the
box!”
FINRA regulates a critical part of the securities industry –
brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United
States. FINRA takes in up to 100 billion market events per day that
are tracked, aggregated, and analyzed for the purpose of protecting
investors. “FINRA is in the process of migrating most of our
databases to AWS,” said Saman Michael Far, Senior Vice President,
FINRA. “We have evaluated Amazon Neptune, and we look forward to
beginning to use it for our graph workloads.”
LifeOmic leverages the cloud, machine learning and mobile
devices to enable precision medicine for healthcare providers,
researchers, health IT companies and patients. LifeOmic’s
JupiterOne is a DevSecOps solution built in the cloud, for the
cloud to automate and simplify security and compliance such as
HIPAA and HITRUST. “Amazon Neptune has accelerated the development
of our JupiterOne DevSecOps software while reducing our operational
costs, enabling us to bring enterprise grade security solutions to
companies of all sizes,” said Erkang Zheng, Chief Information
Security Officer at LifeOmic. “Security operations, analytics and
compliance fundamentally boil down to the ability to ask the right
questions and get the right answers quickly, but the speed of
DevOps and the ephemeral nature of cloud make this difficult. With
Neptune, we can harness the power of graph databases without
infrastructure maintenance overhead. This enables us to focus on
helping organizations build solutions that simplify security and
fast track compliance and certifications such as HIPAA, HITRUST and
NIST.”
“Amazon Neptune is a key part of the toolkit we use to
continually expand Alexa’s knowledge graph for our tens of millions
of Alexa customers—it’s 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,
Amazon.
Amazon Neptune is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US
East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions, and will
expand to additional Regions in the coming year.
About Amazon Web Services
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comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence
(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual
and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application
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(AZs) within 18 geographic regions and one Local Region around the
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world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises,
and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, make
them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
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