Company
Date Published
Author
Tim Hanssen
Word count
1566
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Prepr is a multi-channel engagement platform that streamlines content workflows and powers valuable audience interactions. They were using MySQL relational database to manage their data, but it was becoming increasingly slow due to the large amount of data points and properties they had to manage. By switching from MySQL to Neo4j, they were able to provide powerful real-time recommendations on both the front-end and back-end of the user experience. For example, Prepr created a dynamic queueing tool that could identify customers in a queue who would be most beneficial for ticket sales, and also provided users with a chatbot that offered real-time event recommendations based on factors like location, time of day, and weather. The fast, scalable, and highly-performant Neo4j graph database provided Prepr with the necessary tools to create these effective tools while requiring less storage and hardware than their previous database.