by Angela Guess

According to a new press release, “Neo Technology, creator of Neo4j, the world’s leading graph database, announced today it has been named a strong performer in ‘The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q3 2016’ report by Forrester Research. Forrester evaluated Big Data NoSQL technology from 15 vendors using criteria categorized by current offering, strategy and market presence. Information gleaned from the report indicates that more than 60 percent of surveyed enterprises already have implemented or plan on implementing NoSQL solutions within the next 12 months.”

The release continues, “The Forrester NoSQL Wave contains expert analysis of the key differentiators, future outlook and use case suitability for more than 15 of the top commercial NoSQL vendors within this quickly-changing market. The report also explains why technology decision makers select NoSQL DBMS for their ability to enable elastic scale, support flexible data models, lower data management costs and deliver extreme read and write speeds. The Forrester report also states that ‘Neo4j is the most popular graph database…It supports transactional operations in the context of mission-critical systems running real-time queries. Customer feedback indicates that Neo4j’s key strengths are its ability to support native storage and processing of graph data models and its fully ACID-compliant, flexible data models, plus high performance for connected data’.”

It adds, “According to the report, ‘customers often use it for real-time recommendations, graph-based search, social networking, fraud detection, network and identity management and master data management’.”

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