TigerGraph
Parallel graph DB with GSQL/GQL. CoPilot for entity extraction. Free community edition.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 47 cited facts, 5 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Massively parallel graph + GSQL vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Knowledge-graph platforms
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Community Edition free; Savanna free trial; Savanna $45 per GB/month and Savanna Business Critical $126 per GB/month (24x7, US/Tier 1); Enterprise via sales vendor fix
- Funding
- $105M total Series C · 2021-02 third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server repo fix
When to use
Optimised for: relationship modeling + reasoning + governance over pure vector
Anti-fit: not for purely-vector or simple-RAG use cases (graph adds setup cost)
Pros & cons
Pros
Strongest at high-cardinality multi-hop queries and parallel graph compute; outperforms Neo4j on certain analytical workloads.
Cons
GSQL is less widely known than Cypher; smaller community and ecosystem than Neo4j.
Claims & capabilities
First to pass LDBC SNB at 1TB benchmark; executed BI workload at 36TB (73B vertices, 534B edges) and 108TB scale; 40x–337x faster than competitors on 2-hop path queries; 1.8x–58x faster data loading; 5x–13x more disk-efficient. Customers in pharma, healthcare, financial services, telecom, government
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST, GSQL, SDK: Python, Java
- Backend storage
- custom (native parallel graph)
- Deployment
- Both
- Embedding model
- BYO
- Multi-tenancy
- TigerGraph Savanna SaaS uses logical separation; on-prem deployment for hard tenant isolation
- MCP
- yes — official tigergraph/tigergraph-mcp server (stdio and Streamable HTTP, built on pyTigerGraph)
- A2A
- no Google A2A (Agent2Agent) integration documented as of 2026-05.
- OpenTelemetry
- first-class
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Similar systems
Other knowledge-graph platforms in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Neo4j T1
Property graph DB with Cypher; native vector search; Aura Agent + MCP server for graph-as-memory. $100M GenAI investment in 2025.
- Amazon Neptune Analytics T1
Vector index on graph nodes queryable via openCypher. Mem0 integration GA 2025; Cognee integration for agentic RAG. Combines semantic recall with multi-hop traversal in one managed service.
- FalkorDB T2
Native GraphRAG SDK. Graph-memory backend for Mem0; MCP server via Graphiti integration; context graphs for long-term agent memory.
- ArangoDB T1
HybridGraphRAG combines vector search, graph traversal, full-text in one AQL query. ArangoGraphML for ML pipelines; LangChain integration. The company now brands itself Arango (Arango Contextual Data Platform unifying graph, vector, document and search), with ArangoDB as its database.
- Kuzu T2
Embedded property-graph database (Cypher) with a built-in vector index and full-text search, widely used as an embedded store for agent memory and GraphRAG. The kuzudb/kuzu repository was archived on 2025-10-10 after Apple acquired the company; 0.11.3 is the final release and earlier releases remain usable.
- Memgraph T2
In-memory GraphRAG engine. Memgraph 3.0 adds native vector search alongside graph traversal. LangChain toolkit.
Sources (46 cited facts, 5 third-party)
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- What it is Massively parallel graph + GSQL vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Parallel graph DB with GSQL/GQL. CoPilot for entity extraction. Free community edition. vendor
- Claims / benefits First to pass LDBC SNB at 1TB benchmark; executed BI workload at 36TB (73B vertices, 534… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2021-02 third-party
- Mindshare 2 press ~200 (TigerGrap jobs vendor
- Funding $105M total Series C · 2021-02 third-party
- Customers / scale 201-500 ppl third-party
- Pricing Community Edition free; Savanna free trial; Savanna $45 per GB/month and Savanna Busines… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001 vendor
- Data handling Customer data not used for vendor model training vendor
- Deployment Both vendor
- HQ US third-party
- Founders / pedigree Yu Xu (founder/CTO); Mingxi Wu (Head of Engineering); founded 2012 third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Performance LDBC Social Network Benchmark winner (2018): up to 245× faster than peers on 30-hop deep… vendor
- API surface REST, GSQL, SDK: Python, Java vendor
- Backend storage custom (native parallel graph) vendor
- Multi-tenancy TigerGraph Savanna SaaS uses logical separation; on-prem deployment for hard tenant isol… vendor
- Encryption At-rest via cloud-provider native encryption (platform-managed keys); TLS for connection… vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO + RBAC vendor
- Embedding model BYO vendor
- Versioning immutable append-log vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling always overwrite (last-write-wins) vendor
- Forgetting policy none (permanent) vendor
- MCP support yes — official tigergraph/tigergraph-mcp server (stdio and Streamable HTTP, built on pyT… repo
- OTel first-class vendor
- Import / export CSV, JSON, GSQL backup vendor
- Validated verticals financial-services, healthcare, legal, government, internal IT, KM vendor
- Time to running <1hr (Docker / managed cloud) to <1week (enterprise procurement) vendor
- Anti-fit not for purely-vector or simple-RAG use cases (graph adds setup cost) vendor
- Optimised for relationship modeling + reasoning + governance over pure vector vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure BYO LLM; bundled graph store; some require additional vector index vendor
- Pros Strongest at high-cardinality multi-hop queries and parallel graph compute; outperforms … vendor
- Cons GSQL is less widely known than Cypher; smaller community and ecosystem than Neo4j. vendor
- Project & sources tigergraph.com CoPilot vendor
- cost-pricing-model subscription vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- sdk-languages python,rest vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Pricing “Enterprise only” → “Community Edition free; Savanna free trial; Savanna $45 per GB/month and Savanna Business Critical $126 per GB/month (24x7, US/Tier 1); Enterprise via sales” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — official tigergraph/tigergraph-mcp server (stdio and Streamable HTTP, built on pyTigerGraph)” source