TigerGraph is a private company headquartered in

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. It provides graph database and graph analytics software.

History

TigerGraph was founded in 2012 by programmer Dr. Yu Xu under the name GraphSQL. In September 2017, the company came out of stealth mode under the name TigerGraph with $33 million in funding. It raised an additional $32 million in funding in September 2019 and another $105 million in a series C round in February 2021. Cumulative funding as of March 2021 is $170 million.

Products

TigerGraph's

hybrid transactional/analytical processing Hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP) is a term created by Gartner Inc., an information technology research and advisory company, in its early 2014 research report ''Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing Will Foster Opportunities for ...

database and analytics software can scale to tens of terabytes of data with billions of

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, and is used for data intensive applications such as fraud detection, customer data analysis (customer 360),

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artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

and

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. It is available using the

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delivery model. The analytics uses

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based software and a parallel processing engine to process algorithms and queries. It has its own graph query language that is similar to SQL.Robert Thanaraj, Julian Sun, Eric Thoo, Ehtisham Zaidi, Eric Hunter (May 7, 2020). “Gartner Cool Vendors in Data Management," Gartner.” TigerGraph also provides a

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for creating graphs and visual representations.Noel Yuhanna, Gene Leganza, Daniel Weber (November 16, 2020). �
The Forrester Wave: Graph Data Platforms, Q4
” Forrester Research. As of January 2022, TigerGraph version is up to Graph version 3.

Reception

A 2018 review of TigerGraph 2.2 in ''Infoworld'' gave the product 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Query Language

GSQL is a SQL-like Turing complete query language designed by TigerGraph.

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