engineering

TigerGraph

TigerGraph is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand TigerGraph rather than just read about it. In short: TigerGraph is a private company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It provides graph database and graph analytics software.

Key takeaways

TigerGraph belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect TigerGraph to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of TigerGraph from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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 Ruoming, Li, Mingxi, Like and Yu 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 database and analytics software can scale to hundreds of terabytes of data with trillions of edges, and is used for data intensive applications such as fraud detection, customer data analysis (customer 360), IoT, artificial intelligence and machine learning. It is available using the cloud computing delivery model. The analytics uses C++ based software and a parallel processing engine to process algorithms and queries. It has its own graph query language that is similar to SQL. TigerGraph also provides a software development kit for creating graphs and visual representations. As of Mar 2024, TigerGraph version is up to version 4.2.0 TigerGraph offers free Community Edition for developers, researchers, and educators. It can be obtained from https://dl.tigergraph.com/

Query Language GSQL , designed by Mingxi Wu and Alin Deutsch in 2015, is a SQL-like Turing complete query language. GSQL includes additions to make it compliant with the Graph Query Language standard.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with TigerGraph

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what TigerGraph claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to TigerGraph before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about TigerGraph ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of TigerGraph

In research: TigerGraph appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses TigerGraph in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: TigerGraph is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Databases, Graph databases, Structured storage, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for TigerGraph outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study TigerGraph in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what TigerGraph means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain TigerGraph out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is TigerGraph in simple terms?

TigerGraph is a private company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It provides graph database and graph analytics software.

Why does TigerGraph matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study TigerGraph?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on TigerGraph.