AI could help push Neo4j graph database growth

Graph databases have always been useful to help find connections across a vast data set, and it turns out that capability is quite handy in artificial intelligence and machine learning too. Today, Neo4j, the makers of the open source and commercial graph database platform, announced the release of Neo4j 3.5, which has a number of new features aimed specifically at AI and machine learning. Neo4j founder and CEO Emil Eifrem says he had recognized the connection between AI and machine learning and graph databases for a while, but he says that it has taken some time for the market to catch up to the idea. "There has been a lot momentum around AI and graphs…Graphs are very fundamental to AI. At the same time we were seeing some early use cases, but not really broad adoption, and that's what we're seeing right now," he explained.