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TigerGraph

A distributed property graph database (formerly GraphSQL) built for massively parallel processing and graph analytics. Uses the SQL-like GSQL query language and supports ACID transactions. Available in developer, cloud, and enterprise editions.

Details

Vendor
TigerGraph
Type
Property Graph
Category
Established
License
Proprietary
Query Languages
GSQL

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Feature Scores

Community & Business

Active development
Updated within last 3 months
Commercial support
Paid support available
Live community
25-50% of issues addressed
Open Source
Closed source
Pricing
No pricing information
Trendiness

Deployment

Containerization
Docker image available
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Can embed in application
Testing in-memory version

Platform

Operating on Linux
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
Docker image available
SaaS offering
Self-hosted only

Operations

Automatic updates
Manual updates only
Client side caching
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
No versioning
Live backups
Hot backup supported

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
Data sharding supported
High-Availability
HA mechanisms available
Query Distribution
Distributed query execution
Replication support

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Composite data types
Logging/Auditing
Object-Graph Mapper
No object mapper
Reactive programming
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
Binary protocol
Text-based protocols only
CLI
Command-line interface
GUI
Visual interface available

Data Model

Multi-database
Multi-model database
Graph-native data
Native graph storage
REST API
REST endpoint available
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
No granular locking
Multiple isolation levels
Read uncommitted only
Read committed transaction
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
No constraints
Schema support
Schema definition tools
Secondary indexes
Primary index only
Server side procedures
Stored procedures supported
Triggers
No triggers
Authentication
Authentication supported
Authorization
Role-based access control
Data encryption
Data encryption supported