TigerGraph
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Analytics software |
| Predecessor | GraphSQL |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | Yu Xu |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California |
Key people | Yu Xu, Chief Executive Officer |
| Website | www |
TigerGraph is a private company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It provides graph database and graph analytics software.
History
TigerGraph was founded in 2012 by programmer Dr. Yu Xu under the name GraphSQL.[1]
In September 2017, the company came out of stealth mode under the name TigerGraph with $33 million in funding.[1] It raised an additional $32 million in funding in September 2019[2] and another $105 million in a series C round in February 2021.[3] Cumulative funding as of March 2021 is $170 million.[4]
Products
TigerGraph's hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) database and analytics software can scale to tens of terabytes of data with billions of edges, and is used for data intensive applications such as fraud detection, customer 360, IoT, AI and machine learning.[1][4] It is available in the cloud.[5] The analytics uses C++ based software and a parallel processing engine to process algorithms and queries.[1] It has its own graph query language (GSQL) that is similar to SQL.[1][2][6]: 9–10 TigerGraph also provides a software development kit (SDK) for creating graphs and visual representations.[1][7]
Reception
A review in Infoworld of TigerGraph 2.2 gave the product 4.5 out of 5 stars.[8] The review said TigerGraph excelled at parallel processing and in multi-hop analytic queries.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Anadiotis, George (September 19, 2017). "TigerGraph, a graph database born to roar". ZDNet. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Wiggers, Kyle (September 25, 2019). "TigerGraph raises $32 million for graph database tools". VentureBeat. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ Anadiotis, George (February 17, 2021). "Up and to the right: TigerGraph scores $105M Series C funding, the Graph market is growing". ZDNet. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ a b "TigerGraph raises $105M Series C for its enterprise graph database". TechCrunch. February 17, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
- ^ Preimesberger, Chris (July 16, 2020). "TigerGraph Launches Graph Database-as-a-Service on Azure". eWEEK. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- ^ Robert Thanaraj, Julian Sun, Eric Thoo, Ehtisham Zaidi, Eric Hunter (May 7, 2020). “Gartner Cool Vendors in Data Management," Gartner.”
- ^ Noel Yuhanna, Gene Leganza, Daniel Weber (November 16, 2020). “The Forrester Wave: Graph Data Platforms, Q4,” Forrester Research.
- ^ a b Heller, Martin (December 17, 2018). "TigerGraph review: A graph database designed for deep analytics". InfoWorld. Retrieved April 5, 2021.