Case Study: WineDataSystem achieves real-time, scalable wine reference management with Neo4j

WDS Revamps its Resource for Wine Professionals in Less Than Four Months

WineDataSystem (WDS), founded in 2011, builds sales automation, PIM and CRM tools for wine professionals. Facing a fragmented global wine data landscape—multiple databases, regional names and formats—and hamstrung by a rigid SQL/Windev/PostgreSQL stack that produced slow, inflexible queries, WDS needed an inexpensive, easy-to-use solution that delivered real-time responsiveness.

WDS rewrote its platform on the Neo4j graph database and deployed a working solution in under four months, cutting query times to about 0.01 seconds and enabling a live, evolving wine reference. The new system supports a software package and tablet interface for brokers and sellers, eliminated manual data maintenance, and now manages some 20,000 wine references, freeing staff for higher-value work.

WineDataSystem

Aymeric Fournier

Founder and CEO