Amazon Neptune update: Machine learning, data science, and the future of graph databases

Data models and query languages are admittedly somewhat dry topics for people who are not in the inner circle of connoisseurs. Although graph data models and query languages are no exception to that rule, we've tried to keep track of developments in that area, for one main reason. Graph is the fastest growing area in the biggest segment in enterprise software -- databases. Case in point: A series of recent funding rounds, culminating in Neo4j's $325 million Series F funding round, brought its valuation to over $2 billion. Neo4j is among the graph database vendors who have been around the longest, and it now is the best-funded one, too.