# FalkorDB vs TigerGraph

**Leader by Vioscale score:** FalkorDB

| Attribute | FalkorDB | TigerGraph |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 54.5 (62% (medium)) | 42.5 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 55 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 5,659 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 23,016 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source graph database built on Redis that combines graph traversal with vector search for AI/ML workloads, offering multi-tenancy, real-time analytics, and cloud or self-hosted deployment options. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"storage":"native","workload":"transactional","deployment":"self_hosted","distributed":"clustered","graph_model":"property_graph","vector_search":true,"query_language":"graph traversal (natural language queries supported)","replication_ha":true}` | `{"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}` |
| integrations.count | - | 13 |
| 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"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | - |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"linux":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"FREE","summary":"Free tier for development","features":["Multi-Graph / Multi-Tenancy","Graph Access Control","Community Support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Community tier for building MVPs","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"multi_graph":"supported","graph_access_control":"supported"}},{"free":false,"name":"STARTUP","summary":"$73/GB/month","features":["Multi-Graph / Multi-Tenancy","Graph Access Control","TLS","Automated Backups (Every 12 Hours)","Community Support"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":73,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For scaling startups and small deployments","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"PRO","summary":"$350/8GB/month","features":["Multi-Graph / Multi-Tenancy","Graph Access Control","TLS","Cluster Deployment","High Availability","Multi-zone Deployment","Scalability","Continuous Persistence","Automated Backups (Every 12 Hours)","Business Hours Support"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":8,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":350,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Production-ready with clustering and high availability","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"ENTERPRISE","summary":"Custom pricing, contact sales","features":["All features from PRO","VPC","Advanced Monitoring","Custom Automated Backups","Enterprise 24/7 Support","Dedicated Account Manager"],"description":"Custom deployment with advanced features and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $73/GB/month for Startup tier. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.falkordb.com/plans/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:37:58.588Z","startingPrice":{"amount":73,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"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"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | 6 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.20.4","date":"2026-08-20T19:55:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.20.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.20.3","date":"2026-08-13T21:52:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.20.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.20.2","date":"2026-08-09T15:35:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.20.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.20.1","date":"2026-07-15T08:26:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.20.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.20.0","date":"2026-07-13T19:19:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.11","date":"2026-06-24T15:10:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.10","date":"2026-06-10T16:42:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.9","date":"2026-06-03T08:33:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.8","date":"2026-05-24T10:04:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.7","date":"2026-05-14T12:04:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.6","date":"2026-05-11T20:42:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.5","date":"2026-05-11T11:00:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.4","date":"2026-05-07T10:06:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.3","date":"2026-04-30T14:38:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.2","date":"2026-04-28T08:41:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.1","date":"2026-04-12T08:50:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.18.0","date":"2026-04-07T07:34:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.16.9","date":"2026-04-03T11:37:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.16.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.16.8","date":"2026-03-31T10:04:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.16.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/releases/tag/v4.16.7","date":"2026-03-13T09:14:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v4.16.7"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FFalkorDB%2FFalkorDB&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Graph Databases)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:16:06.347Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*