Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications working with highly connected datasets.
At its core, Neptune features a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine, optimized for storing billions of relationships and executing graph queries with millisecond latency.
Neptune supports graph use cases such as:
- Recommendation engines
- Fraud detection
- Knowledge graphs
- Drug discovery
- Network security
It can quickly and efficiently process large sets of user profiles and interactions, making it ideal for social networking applications.
Neptune enables highly interactive graph queries with high throughput, allowing you to incorporate rich social features into your applications.
Example Use Case:
If you're building a social feed, Neptune can help you prioritize content by:
- Showing updates from family members first
- Prioritizing updates from friends whose posts the user has liked
- Highlighting content from friends who live nearby