# JanusGraph vs TigerGraph

**Leader by Vioscale score:** JanusGraph

| Attribute | JanusGraph | TigerGraph |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 52.7 (70% (medium)) | 42.5 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 9 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 250 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 5,829 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A database system that stores and queries extremely large graphs spread across multiple machines, enabling many users to run complex lookups simultaneously with strong transaction guarantees and support for batch analytics. | 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":"pluggable","workload":"both","deployment":"self_hosted","consistency":"tunable","distributed":"sharded","graph_model":"property_graph","licence_class":"permissive","query_language":"Gremlin","replication_ha":true,"full_text_search":"via_index","standard_support":true,"acid_transactions":"full"}` | `{"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 | 14 | 13 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Apache Cassandra"},{"name":"Apache HBase"},{"name":"Google Cloud Bigtable"},{"name":"Oracle BerkeleyDB"},{"name":"ScyllaDB"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Apache Solr"},{"name":"Apache Lucene"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Aerospike"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"FoundationDB"},{"name":"Gremlin"},{"name":"Apache TinkerPop"}]` | `[{"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 | Java | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Fully open source under Apache 2 license. No commercial licensing required.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://janusgraph.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:32:49.930Z"}` | `{"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 | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | 74 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v1.1.0","date":"2024-11-09T01:29:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v1.0.1","date":"2024-11-08T21:41:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v1.0.0","date":"2023-10-22T02:40:57Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.6.4","date":"2023-10-09T05:14:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2","date":"2023-02-26T14:20:07Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.0.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.6.3","date":"2023-02-20T22:06:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc1","date":"2022-12-08T09:15:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.0.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.6.2","date":"2022-05-31T09:35:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.6.1","date":"2022-01-19T12:51:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.6.0","date":"2021-09-03T12:33:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.5.3","date":"2020-12-25T12:09:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.5.2","date":"2020-05-06T00:49:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.5.1","date":"2020-04-04T17:21:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.5.0","date":"2020-03-12T05:40:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.4.1","date":"2020-01-15T16:40:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.3.3","date":"2020-01-14T17:40:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.3.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.4.0","date":"2019-07-02T19:27:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.3.2","date":"2019-06-17T14:29:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.3.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.2.3","date":"2019-05-22T01:26:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.2.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/JanusGraph/janusgraph/releases/tag/v0.2.2","date":"2018-10-09T18:04:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.2.2"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 6.5 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.janusgraph%3Ajanusgraph-core&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Graph Databases)

| Capability | JanusGraph | TigerGraph |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Model** |  |  |
| Graph model | Property graph | Property graph |
| Query language(s) | Gremlin | GSQL, GraphQL, GQL |
| **Transactions** |  |  |
| ACID transactions | Full | - |
| Consistency model | Tunable | Strong |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Storage | Pluggable backend | Native graph |
| Distributed / scale | Sharded | Clustered |
| Replication / HA | ✓ | ✓ |
| OLTP vs OLAP | Both | Both |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | - |
| **Search** |  |  |
| Full-text search | Via index | - |
| Built-in vector search | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Proprietary |
| **Portability** |  |  |
| openCypher / TinkerPop standard | ✓ | ✗ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:39:15.684Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*