Apache Spark is a popular general-purpose cluster-computing framework. An important addition to that framework is graph technology, which is rapidly growing in popularity as it proves its value across an increasing array of use cases. GraphX is Apache Spark's API for graphs and graph-parallel computation. After...
Unfortunately waste, abuse and outright fraud are rampant in the healthcare industry. Healthcare-related fraud is estimated at around 3-10% of the total cost and is rising, especially with the opioid epidemic affecting over 2 million Americans. In 2017, the Boston Globe uncovered a massive network of...
Last week I attended my third face-to-face meeting for WG3, a subgroup of ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1), and the group that has developed, maintained, and extended the standards for the SQL database language for some four decades. This gathering was exciting because it...
We’re delighted to share news about two very exciting developments. The first is the launch of our graph database-as-a-service with a free tier for no-risk and 12 starter kits to get you started quickly in the cloud. Introducing TigerGraph Cloud We’re in the midst of a foundational...
My job as a TigerGraph SE is to help a prospective customer solve their problems using our product. We are unusually successful, even though we are not yet as well-known as some of our competitors. This is only explainable because we provide the 10X or...
We’re thrilled to see this big step forward for the Graph Query Language (GQL) team, as the key international standards body (ISO/IEC JTC 1) has approved the 4-year project to set a graph query language standard. Though still in draft and incomplete form, GQL is...
Key-value databases have long been used for a variety of applications to provide pre-computed results in real-time. There is, however, an increasing shift towards using Graph technology for real-time applications that illustrates how this game-changing approach is not only ideal for complex datasets and complex...
First, the good news. In a recent report, Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends That Will Change Your Business, Gartner Research identified graph database and analytics as a key technology. Gartner forecasts that, “Graph analytics will grow in the next few years due to the...
Originally featured on The New Stack An oft-quoted study by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development estimates the cost of developing a new drug, from R&D to approval, is about $2.6 billion. Influencer marketing is often thought of in a consumer context, such as...
Originally featured on DZone Motivation GSQL is a Turing complete Graph Database query language. Compared to other graph query languages, the biggest advantage is its support of Accumulators — global or attachable to each vertex. In addition to providing the classic pattern match syntax, which is easy to master, GSQL supports...
