# TigerGraph vs Virtuoso

| Attribute | TigerGraph | Virtuoso |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 40.9 (71% (medium)) | 36.7 (77% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 9 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 975 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 22 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A graph database platform that models relationships between data points, supporting enterprise deployments with features for compliance, fraud detection, real-time identity verification, and integration with existing enterprise infrastructure. It is indexed under Graph Databases.","source":"https://www.tigergraph.com","question":"What is TigerGraph?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"TigerGraph offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Basic, Premium and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.tigergraph.com/savanna-pricing/","question":"Is TigerGraph free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to TigerGraph. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.tigergraph.com/savanna-pricing/","question":"What platforms does TigerGraph support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. TigerGraph can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.tigergraph.com/savanna-pricing/","question":"Can TigerGraph be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for TigerGraph, including Snowflake, Apache Spark, Kafka, Apache Iceberg, AWS S3, MinIO, Ceph and Wasabi, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.tigergraph.com","question":"What does TigerGraph integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` | `[{"answer":"Enterprise-grade platform designed to consolidate and govern data from diverse sources—databases, knowledge graphs, file systems, and APIs—with built-in support for AI agents and language model integration. It is indexed under Graph Databases.","source":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing/","question":"What is Virtuoso?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Virtuoso is a paid product; published pricing starts at $99.99. It is sold across 4 plans (Personal, Developer, Project and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing/","question":"How much does Virtuoso cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Virtuoso supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Virtuoso support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Virtuoso can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing/","question":"Can Virtuoso be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 5 integrations for Virtuoso, including SQLAlchemy, RDFLib, SQL databases, Linked Data sources and APIs. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing/","question":"What does Virtuoso integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Virtuoso is published under the BSD licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://pypi.org/pypi/virtuoso/json","question":"Is Virtuoso open source?","confidence":0.9},{"answer":"Virtuoso is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Virtuoso available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A graph database platform that models relationships between data points, supporting enterprise deployments with features for compliance, fraud detection, real-time identity verification, and integration with existing enterprise infrastructure. | A database server supporting both conventional relational data via SQL and semantic graphs via SPARQL and GraphQL. Designed to integrate diverse data sources into a unified system that enables knowledge graph creation, reasoning, and enterprise-wide data discovery. |
| features.capabilities | `{"storage":"native","workload":"both","consistency":"strong","distributed":"clustered","graph_model":"property_graph","licence_class":"proprietary","query_language":"GSQL, GraphQL, GQL","replication_ha":true,"standard_support":false}` | `{"workload":"both","deployment":"self_hosted","graph_model":"rdf_triple","licence_class":"source_available","query_language":"SPARQL","replication_ha":true,"standard_support":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 6 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"MinIO"},{"name":"Ceph"},{"name":"Wasabi"},{"name":"Kerberos"},{"name":"SAML"},{"name":"OIDC"},{"name":"LDAP"},{"name":"GraphQL"},{"name":"S3","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"SQLAlchemy"},{"name":"RDFLib"},{"name":"SQL databases"},{"name":"NoSQL databases"},{"name":"Linked Data sources"},{"name":"APIs"}]` |
| language.primary | - | C |
| license.spdx | - | BSD |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Basic","summary":"Pay-per-use VM instances and storage","commitment":"monthly","description":"Entry-level tier with 7-day backup retention","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Premium","summary":"Pay-per-use VM instances and storage","commitment":"monthly","description":"Mid-tier with 14-day backup retention","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing for annual and longer commitments","description":"Enterprise tier with 28-day backup retention and long-term commitment options","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Insights","components":[{"of":"compute_usage","kind":"percentage","rate":10}]},{"name":"GraphStudio"},{"name":"GraphQL Service"}],"summary":"Usage-based pricing on compute instances and storage; free tier available","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tigergraph.com/savanna-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:33:57.146Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Personal","summary":"$99.99/year","features":["2 Concurrent Sessions","CPU Core Affinity","Linux, Windows, macOS","Workstation"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99.99,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Developer","summary":"$199/year","features":["5 Concurrent Sessions","Application Development License"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":199,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Project","summary":"$499/year","features":["16 Concurrent Sessions","Unlimited CPU Cores","Server-Grade Operating Systems","Enterprise Support"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":499,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $99.99/year for workstation licenses. Free open-source edition available under GPL. Perpetual enterprise licenses available on request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:16:38.643Z","startingPrice":{"amount":99.99,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | high |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":99.99,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 143 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.17","date":"2026-05-07T16:19:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.16.1","date":"2025-10-15T19:19:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.16.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.16","date":"2025-10-14T16:23:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.15","date":"2025-05-21T14:32:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.14","date":"2024-11-11T16:10:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.13","date":"2024-06-12T08:08:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.12","date":"2024-02-13T17:03:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.11","date":"2023-09-26T16:53:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.10","date":"2023-06-07T14:13:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.9","date":"2023-02-28T09:52:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.8","date":"2022-10-19T13:39:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.7","date":"2022-05-18T15:53:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.6.1","date":"2021-06-22T17:26:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.5.1","date":"2018-08-15T18:41:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.5","date":"2018-08-16T11:00:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.4.2","date":"2016-04-25T16:40:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.4.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.2.1","date":"2015-12-09T21:59:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.1","date":"2015-06-24T19:38:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/openlink/virtuoso-opensource/releases/tag/v7.2.0.1","date":"2015-02-17T14:35:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v7.2.0.1"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | - |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 2.7 |
| security.trust_center | https://www.tigergraph.com/blog/from-compliance-to-competitive-moat-takeaways-from-fintech-meetup-2026/ | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.openlinksw%3Avirtjdbc4&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Graph Databases)

| Capability | TigerGraph | Virtuoso |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Model** |  |  |
| Graph model | Property graph | RDF / triple |
| Query language(s) | GSQL, GraphQL, GQL | SPARQL |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| ACID transactions | - | - |
| Consistency model | Strong | - |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage | Native graph | - |
| Distributed / scale | Clustered | - |
| Replication / HA | ✓ | ✓ |
| OLTP vs OLAP | Both | Both |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | - | Self-hosted |
| **Search** |  |  |
| Full-text search | - | - |
| Built-in vector search | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Source-available |
| **Portability** |  |  |
| openCypher / TinkerPop standard | ✗ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:31:40.344Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*