vioscale
Comparison

Amazon Neptune vs TigerGraph

No clear leader: Amazon Neptune (44.9) and TigerGraph (42.5) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Amazon Neptune full profile →TigerGraph full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Neptune45
TigerGraph43
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Neptune45 / 100medium · 56%updating
TigerGraph43 / 100high · 75%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Neptune✗
TigerGraph✓
Model
Amazon Neptunecommercial
TigerGraphfreemium
Price level
Amazon Neptuneunknown
TigerGraphlow
Transparent
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph✗
Integrations
Count
Amazon Neptune2
TigerGraph13
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph–
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Neptune–
TigerGraph99.95
Status page
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph–
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for graph databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Model
Graph model
Amazon NeptuneMulti-model
TigerGraphProperty graph
Query language(s)
Amazon NeptuneGremlin, openCypher, SPARQL
TigerGraphGSQL, GraphQL, GQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
Amazon NeptuneFull
TigerGraph-
Consistency model
Amazon Neptune-
TigerGraphStrong
Architecture
Storage
Amazon Neptune-
TigerGraphNative graph
Distributed / scale
Amazon NeptuneSharded
TigerGraphClustered
Replication / HA
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph✓
OLTP vs OLAP
Amazon NeptuneBoth
TigerGraphBoth
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon NeptuneManaged
TigerGraph-
Search
Full-text search
Amazon NeptuneNone
TigerGraph-
Built-in vector search
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph-
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon NeptuneProprietary
TigerGraphProprietary
Portability
openCypher / TinkerPop standard
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph✗

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Neptune

A cloud-based graph database that scales serverlessly and analyzes relationships across structured and unstructured data. Designed to improve AI application accuracy through integrated GraphRAG capabilities and support for agentic memory tools.

Independently observed

TigerGraph

TigerGraph is a graph database that connects and understands relationships in data to enable context-aware enterprise AI and analytics. It performs fast multi-hop reasoning across connected data for fraud detection, customer intelligence, compliance, and other regulated business use cases at enterprise scale.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Neptune

Hybrid

Pay-as-you-go pricing with on-demand, serverless, and savings plan options. No minimum fees or upfront commitments for on-demand/serverless.

  • On-demandPay-as-you-go with no commitments
    • No minimum fees
    • No upfront commitments
    • Flexible configuration
  • ServerlessServerless with automatic scaling
    • Automatic scaling
    • No minimum fees
    • No upfront commitments
  • Database Savings PlansUsage-based savings plan with 1-year commitment
    • Savings vs. on-demand
    • 1-year commitment
  • Neptune AnalyticsPer m-NCU-hour billing with pause option
    • Fast analytics on billions of connections
    • In-memory storage
    • Optimized graph algorithms
    • Low-latency queries
    • Vector search
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

TigerGraph

Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing on compute instances and storage; free tier available

  • BasicPay-per-use VM instances and storage
  • PremiumPay-per-use VM instances and storage
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph✓
CLI
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Neptune✓
TigerGraph✓
Self-hosted
Amazon Neptune✗
TigerGraph✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Amazon Neptune

2 total
  • Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
  • Strands AI Agents SDK
Independently observed

TigerGraph

13 total
  • Snowflake
  • Apache Spark
  • Kafka
  • Apache Iceberg
  • AWS S3
  • MinIO
  • Ceph
  • Wasabi
  • Kerberos
  • SAML
  • OIDC
  • LDAP
  • GraphQL
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.