Social networks

Social networks seem to be a natural fit for graph databases. Individuals have friends, attend events, check in to geographical locations, create posts, and send messages. All of these different aspects can be tracked and managed with a graph database such as Neo4j.

Who can see a certain person's posts? Friends? Friends of friends? Who will be attending a certain event? How is a person connected to others attending the same event? In small numbers, these problems could be solved with a number of data stores. But what about an event with several thousand people attending, where each person has a network of 500 friends? Neo4j can help to solve a multitude of problems in this domain, and appropriately scale to meet increasing levels of operational complexity.