Data Lineage in Neo4j

"Data is the new Gold", is something we hear everyone say these days. Often, they will point to "big" data as the source of wealth and knowledge. However, in many cases, we find that clients don't necessarily have "big data" problems, but rather have big "data problems".

It's a subtle but important difference. Addressing these data problems often starts with understanding the story behind the data: where does it come from? How does it get processed? Who has access to it? Who manipulates it, and in what way?

That understanding and governance is what many enterprises need to understand, and they do so by creating dependency graphs of their data flows - also know as a "Data Lineage" graph. In this presentation we will explore the topic, understand the context, and show how we can solve this challenge with a graph database in ways that we could not do so before.

Speaker: Rik Van Bruggen