Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Jul 11
22 mins read
We're Entering the "Blue Links" Era of RAG We are on the verge of realizing that in order to do anything significantly useful with GenAI, you can’t depend only on autoregressive LLMs to make your decisions. I know what you’re thinking: “RAG is the answer.” Or fine-tuning, or... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Apr 17
6 mins read
Last Friday, ISO published a new database query language: ISO GQL. It’s a peer language to SQL and the first new ISO database language since 1987 — when the first version of SQL was released. This is a really big deal. The GQL standard is for and about graphs. Graphs are a way of... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Jun 07, 2022
7 mins read
We're so pleased to follow up on the announcements we made today at GraphConnect. Our teams worked tirelessly to make the vision of the graph data platform a reality and today we shared updates that continue to make good on that vision. In this blog, we're recapping the highlights Emil Eifrem... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Mar 27, 2020
6 mins read
Keith Hare has joined the Neo4j team to spearhead language standards efforts. My name is Philip Rathle, Neo4j's VP of Product Management, and I got a chance to sit down with Keith to discuss his thoughts on databases, standards and the future of the industry. Philip Rathle:... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Nov 15, 2018
2 mins read
TL;DR: Starting with Neo4j 3.5, Enterprise Edition source code will no longer be published to the open source commons, including future versions. This does not impact Neo4j Community Edition. We will continue to deliver the world’s best and most comprehensive graph database as open... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
May 17, 2018
8 mins read
Author's note: What a hectic week in the world of Neo4j! In addition to finalizing the delivery of Neo4j 3.4, we simultaneously built the GQL Manifesto, a call to support a common, unified Graph Query Language. Thank you to the graph community for your strong vote of support! If you have not... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Nov 01, 2017
3 mins read
In case you missed it at GraphConnect New York: The Neo4j team has announced the public alpha release of Cypher for Apache Spark™. We’ve been building Cypher for Apache Spark for over a year now and have donated it to the openCypher project under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing for external... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
May 11, 2017
17 mins read
We are proud to announce the general availability release of Neo4j 3.2. This release marks an expansion in global scale, enterprise refinement and all-around performance. It signals that the next generation of graph-powered Internet applications will span the globe. To this end, the themes... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Apr 26, 2016
7 mins read
Today, the Neo4j team is proud to announce the release of Neo4j 3.0.0. As the first release in the 3.x series, Neo4j 3.0 is based on a completely redesigned architecture and a commitment to offer the world's most scalable graph database, greater developer productivity and a wide range of... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Nov 13, 2015
3 mins read
openCypher and the Neo4j 2.3 release weren’t the only big announcements Emil Eifrem made during his keynote address at GraphConnect San Francisco. The Neo4j team is also proud to unveil Neo4j on IBM POWER8. Just as we are working hard to make Neo4j the best, fastest and most scalable... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Oct 22, 2015
12 mins read
If you didn’t hear the news from Emil Eifrem’s keynote presentation at GraphConnect San Francisco yesterday: The Neo4j team is pleased to announce the general availability of Neo4j 2.3.0. Everyone from across Neo Technology has worked hard to make sure this the best, fastest and most... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Dec 03, 2014
4 mins read
Better, Faster, and More Scalable Neo4j than ever before Neo4j 2.2 aims to be our fastest and most scalable release ever. With Neo4j 2.2 our engineering team introduces massive enhancements to the internal architecture resulting in higher performance and scalability. This first milestone (or... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Jun 02, 2014
2 mins read
Banks and insurance companies lose billions of dollars every year to fraud. Traditional methods of fraud detection play an important role in minimizing these losses. However, increasingly sophisticated fraudsters have developed a variety of ways to elude discovery, both by working together and by... read more
Philip Rathle, Chief Technology Officer, Neo4j
Jan 24, 2013
6 mins read
2013: What's Coming Next in Neo4j! Following the recent 2012 retrospective, we’d like to share some of our plans for the coming year. If you’ve been following our latest progress, you already know that we have a 1.9 version in the works. Neo4j 1.9 makes great strides in HA cluster... read more