+Unlock the Value of Data with Event
Streaming and Graph Databases
A Confluent and Neo4j Solution Brief

Neo4j combined with
Confluent Platform enables
real-time data relationships
resulting in new and powerfulcapabilities for enterprisecustomers

Neo4j and Confluent
together help customers:• Realize more value
from streaming data by
combining flexible“whiteboard friendly” graphmodeling with event
streaming

Businesses today rely on data that is connected and event driven.
Neo4j’s connected data technology allows data to be represented
as a graph. Combined with the event streaming platform fromConfluent enables real time data relationships; resulting inpowerful, new capabilities for enterprise customers. Integration
with Kafka and Confluent Platform allows change eventsfrom Neo4j to be available to Kafka, so that other systems canconsume them and update downstream systems. Additionally, theintegration enables Neo4j users to consume events from Kafkaand turn events into graph structures.
Producer App

Producer App• Enrich transaction streams
for powerful patterninsights, such as assignmentof a fraud score to afinancial transaction• Enable graph-basedanalytics to uncover issues
for immediate action such as
fraud scams

streams
graph
algorithms

Consumer App

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Why Neo4j Graph Database?
Enterprises today don’t only need to manage larger volumes of data, but they critically need to generate insight from their
existing data. The relationships between data points matter almost more than the individual points themselves. To leverage
those data relationships, organizations rely on database technology that stores relationship information as a first-classentity. This connections-first approach powers applications tackling artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time
recommendations and master data management.

Confluent Platform and Neo4j
The combination of Neo4j graph database with Confluent’s event streaming platform helps organizations understand theirdata better, producing better business decisions. With Kafka Streams and KSQL from Confluent, real-time processing andresponding are enabled. When event streams are enriched with powerful graph-based analytics, clearer correlations can bemade, for example, the assignment of fraud scores to a financial transaction or ability to provide an influence metric with asocial connection. Connected information also enables real time analytics that uncover security risks or provide competitive
sales insights that require immediate attention.
Together, Confluent Platform and event streaming with Neo4j graph platform enables real time data relationships; resulting
in powerful, new capabilities for enterprise customers - on premises or in the cloud.

Contact Confluent
Confluent.io/contact+1 (800) 439-3207

Contact Neo4j
Neo4j.com/contact-us+1 (855) 636-4532

About Confluent

About Neo4j

Confluent, founded by the original

The Neo4j Graph Platform helps

creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneeredorganizations make sense of their data

the enterprise-ready eventby revealing how people, processes,

streaming platform. With Confluent,locations and systems are interrelated.

organizations benefit from the first

This connections-first approach

event streaming platform built for

powers applications tackling artificial

the enterprise with the ease-of-use,

intelligence, fraud detection, real-scalability, security and flexibilitytime recommendations and masterrequired by the most discerning global

data. The company boasts the world’s

companies to run their business in reallargest dedicated investment in graphtime. www.confluent.io. Download attechnology, has amassed more thanwww.confluent.io/download.

20 million downloads and has a hugedeveloper community deploying graphapplications around the globe.
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