Best Graph Databases for Startups
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What are Graph Databases for Startups?
Graph databases are specialized databases designed to store, manage, and query data that is represented as graphs. Unlike traditional relational databases that use tables to store data, graph databases use nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store data. Nodes represent entities (such as people, products, or locations), edges represent relationships between entities, and properties store information about nodes and edges. Graph databases are particularly well-suited for applications that involve complex relationships and interconnected data, such as social networks, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and network analysis. Compare and read user reviews of the best Graph Databases for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Redis
Redis Labs
Redis Labs: home of Redis. Redis Enterprise is the best version of Redis. Go beyond cache; try Redis Enterprise free in the cloud using NoSQL & data caching with the world’s fastest in-memory database. Run Redis at scale, enterprise grade resiliency, massive scalability, ease of management, and operational simplicity. DevOps love Redis in the Cloud. Developers can access enhanced data structures, a variety of modules, and rapid innovation with faster time to market. CIOs love the confidence of working with 99.999% uptime best in class security and expert support from the creators of Redis. Implement relational databases, active-active, geo-distribution, built in conflict distribution for simple and complex data types, & reads/writes in multiple geo regions to the same data set. Redis Enterprise offers flexible deployment options, cloud on-prem, & hybrid. Redis Labs: home of Redis. Redis JSON, Redis Java, Python Redis, Redis on Kubernetes & Redis gui best practices.Starting Price: Free -
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IBM Cloud Databases are open source data stores for enterprise application development. Built on a Kubernetes foundation, they offer a database platform for serverless applications. They are designed to scale storage and compute resources seamlessly without being constrained by the limits of a single server. Natively integrated and available in the IBM Cloud console, these databases are now available through a consistent consumption, pricing, and interaction model. They aim to provide a cohesive experience for developers that include access control, backup orchestration, encryption key management, auditing, monitoring, and logging.
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Stardog
Stardog Union
With ready access to the richest flexible semantic layer, explainable AI, and reusable data modeling, data engineers and scientists can be 95% more productive — create and expand semantic data models, understand any data interrelationship, and run federated queries to speed time to insight. Stardog offers the most advanced graph data virtualization and high-performance graph database — up to 57x better price/performance — to connect any data lakehouse, warehouse or enterprise data source without moving or copying data. Scale use cases and users at lower infrastructure cost. Stardog’s inference engine intelligently applies expert knowledge dynamically at query time to uncover hidden patterns or unexpected insights in relationships that enable better data-informed decisions and business outcomes.Starting Price: $0 -
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Virtuoso
OpenLink Software
Virtuoso Universal Server is a modern platform built on existing open standards that harnesses the power of Hyperlinks ( functioning as Super Keys ) for breaking down data silos that impede both user and enterprise ability. Using Virtuoso, you can easily generate financial profile knowledge graphs from near real time financial activity that reduce the cost and complexity associated with detecting fraudent activity patterns. Courtesy of its high-performance, secure, and scalable dbms engine, you can use intelligent reasoning and inference to harmonize fragmented identities using personally identifying attributes such as email addresses, phone numbers, social-security numbers, drivers licenses, etc. for building fraud detection solutions. Virtuoso helps you build powerful solutions applications driven by knowledge graphs derived from a variety of life sciences oriented data sources.Starting Price: $42 per month -
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Fauna
Fauna
Fauna is a data API for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from database operations. Instantly create multiple databases in one account leveraging multi-tenancy for development or customer-facing use case. Create a distributed database across one geography or the globe in just three clicks and easily import existing data. Scale seamlessly without ever managing servers, clusters, data partitioning, or replication. Track usage and consumption-based billing in near real time via a dashboard.Starting Price: Free -
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Graphlytic
Demtec
Graphlytic is a customizable web platform for knowledge graph visualization and analysis. Users can interactively explore the graph, look for patterns with the Cypher or Gremlin query languages (or query templates for non-tech users), or use filters to find the answers to any graph question. The graph visualization brings deep insights in industries, such as scientific research, anti-fraud investigation, etc. Users with very little graph theory knowledge can start to explore the data in no time. Graph rendering is done with the Cytoscape.js library which allows us to render tens of thousands of nodes and hundreds of thousands of relationships. The application is provided in three ways: Desktop, Cloud, and Server. Graphlytic Desktop is a free Neo4j Desktop application installed in just a few clicks. Cloud instances are ideal for small teams that don't want to worry about the installation and need to get up and running in very little time.Starting Price: 19 EUR/month -
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VelocityDB
VelocityDB
VelocityDB is a database engine like no other. It can store data faster and more efficiently than any other solution at a fraction of the cost of other database engines. It stores .NET objects as they are with no mapping to tables, JSON or XML. VelocityGraph is an add on open source property graph database that can be used in conjunction with the VelocityDB object database. Object and graph database engine VelocityDB is a C# .NET noSQL object fatabase, extended as graph database is VelocityGraph. World’s fastest most scalable & flexible database. A bug reported with a reproducible test case is usually fixed within a week. The most important benefit is the flexibility that this database system provides. No other types of database system lets you fine tune your application to the finest details. Using VelocityDB, you can choose the best possible data structures for your application. You can control where you place the data persistently and how it's indexed and accessed.Starting Price: $200 per 6 moths -
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InfiniteGraph
Objectivity
InfiniteGraph is a massively scalable graph database specifically designed to excel at high-speed ingest of massive volumes of data (billions of nodes and edges per hour) while supporting complex queries. InfiniteGraph can seamlessly distribute connected graph data across a global enterprise. InfiniteGraph is a schema-based graph database that supports highly complex data models. It also has an advanced schema evolution capability that allows you to modify and evolve the schema of an existing database. InfiniteGraph’s Placement Management Capability allows you to optimize the placement of data items resulting in tremendous performance improvements in both query and ingest. InfiniteGraph has client-side caching which caches frequently used node and edges. InfiniteGraph's DO query language enables complex "beyond graph" queries not supported by other query languages. -
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data.world
data.world
data.world is a fully managed service, born in the cloud, and optimized for modern data architectures. That means we handle all updates, migrations, and maintenance. Set up is fast and simple with a large and growing ecosystem of pre-built integrations including all of the major cloud data warehouses. When time-to-value is critical, your team needs to solve real business problems, not fight with hard-to-manage data software. data.world makes it easy for everyone, not just the "data people", to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. In addition to our enterprise product, data.world is home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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KgBase
KgBase
KgBase, or Knowledge Graph Base, is a collaborative, robust database with versioning, analytics & visualizations. With KgBase, any community or individual can create knowledge graphs to build insights about their data. Import your CSVs and spreadsheets, or use our API to work on data together. Build no-code knowledge graphs with KgBase, our easy-to-use UI lets you traverse the graph, show the results as tables and charts, and much more. Play with your graph data. Build your query and see results update in real time. It's like writing query code in Cypher or Gremlin, except easier. And fast. Your graph can be viewed as a table, allowing you to browse all results - no matter the size. KgBase works great with large graphs (millions of nodes), as well as simple projects. In the cloud, or self-hosted, with wide database support. Introduce graphs into your organization by seeding graph from a template. Results of any query can be easily turned into a chart visualization.Starting Price: $19 per month -
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ApertureDB
ApertureDB
Build your competitive edge with the power of vector search. Streamline your AI/ML pipeline workflows, reduce infrastructure costs, and stay ahead of the curve with up to 10x faster time-to-market. Break free of data silos with ApertureDB's unified multimodal data management, freeing your AI teams to innovate. Set up and scale complex multimodal data infrastructure for billions of objects across your entire enterprise in days, not months. Unifying multimodal data, advanced vector search, and innovative knowledge graph with a powerful query engine to build AI applications faster at enterprise scale. ApertureDB can enhance the productivity of your AI/ML teams and accelerate returns from AI investment with all your data. Try it for free or schedule a demo to see it in action. Find relevant images based on labels, geolocation, and regions of interest. Prepare large-scale multi-modal medical scans for ML and clinical studies.Starting Price: $0.33 per hour -
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AllegroGraph
Franz Inc.
AllegroGraph is a breakthrough solution that allows infinite data integration through a patented approach unifying all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution that can support massive big data analytics. AllegroGraph utilizes unique federated sharding capabilities that drive 360-degree insights and enable complex reasoning across a distributed Knowledge Graph. AllegroGraph provides users with an integrated version of Gruff, a unique browser-based graph visualization software tool for exploring and discovering connections within enterprise Knowledge Graphs. Franz’s Knowledge Graph Solution includes both technology and services for building industrial strength Entity-Event Knowledge Graphs based on best-of-class tools, products, knowledge, skills and experience. -
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Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft
Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database service for modern app development with guaranteed single-digit millisecond response times and 99.999-percent availability backed by SLAs, automatic and instant scalability, and open source APIs for MongoDB and Cassandra. Enjoy fast writes and reads anywhere in the world with turnkey multi-master global distribution. Reduce time to insight by running near-real time analytics and AI on the operational data within your Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL database. Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB seamlessly integrates with Azure Synapse Analytics without data movement or diminishing the performance of your operational data store. -
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Amazon Neptune
Amazon
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. Amazon Neptune supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C's RDF, and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and SPARQL, allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security. Proactively detect and investigate IT infrastructure using a layered security approach. Visualize all infrastructure to plan, predict and mitigate risk. Build graph queries for near-real-time identity fraud pattern detection in financial and purchase transactions. -
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Memgraph
Memgraph
Memgraph offers a light and powerful graph platform comprising the Memgraph Graph Database, MAGE Library, and Memgraph Lab Visualization. Memgraph is a dynamic, lightweight graph database optimized for analyzing data, relationships, and dependencies quickly and efficiently. It comes with a rich suite of pre-built deep path traversal algorithms and a library of traditional, dynamic, and ML algorithms tailored for advanced graph analysis, making Memgraph an excellent choice in critical decision-making scenarios such as risk assessment (fraud detection, cybersecurity threat analysis, and criminal risk assessment), 360-degree data and network exploration (Identity and Access Management (IAM), Master Data Management (MDM), Bill of Materials (BOM)), and logistics and network optimization. -
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GUN
amark
Realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine. The data that needs to stored, loaded, and shared in your app without worrying about servers, network calls, databases, or tracking offline changes or concurrency conflicts. GUN is a small, easy, and fast data sync and storage system that runs everywhere JavaScript does. The aim of GUN is to let you focus on the data that needs to be stored, loaded, and shared in your app without worrying about servers, network calls, databases, or tracking offline changes or concurrency conflicts. This lets you build cool apps fast. GUN gives you the most powerful weapons of the internet — decentralization and real privacy — to reclaim the web and make it truly free and open. GUN is a database engine that runs everywhere JavaScript does — browsers, mobile devices and servers, allowing you to build exactly the data system you want. -
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Blazegraph
Blazegraph
Blazegraph™ DB is a ultra high-performance graph database supporting Blueprints and RDF/SPARQL APIs. It supports up to 50 Billion edges on a single machine. It is in production use for Fortune 500 customers such as EMC, Autodesk, and many others. It is supporting key Precision Medicine applications and has wide-spread usage for life science applications. It is used extensively to support Cyber analytics in commercial and government applications. It powers the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikidata Query Service. You can choose an executable jar, war file, or tar.gz distribution. Blazegraph is designed to be easy to use and get started. It ships without SSL or authentication by default for this reason. For production deployments, we strongly recommend you enable SSL, authentication, and appropriate network configurations. There are some helpful links below to enable you to do this. -
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Apache Giraph
Apache Software Foundation
Apache Giraph is an iterative graph processing system built for high scalability. For example, it is currently used at Facebook to analyze the social graph formed by users and their connections. Giraph originated as the open-source counterpart to Pregel, the graph processing architecture developed at Google and described in a 2010 paper. Both systems are inspired by the Bulk Synchronous Parallel model of distributed computation introduced by Leslie Valiant. Giraph adds several features beyond the basic Pregel model, including master computation, sharded aggregators, edge-oriented input, out-of-core computation, and more. With a steady development cycle and a growing community of users worldwide, Giraph is a natural choice for unleashing the potential of structured datasets at a massive scale. Apache Giraph is an iterative graph processing framework, built on top of Apache Hadoop. -
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Fluree
Fluree
Fluree is an immutable RDF graph database written in Clojure and adhering to W3C standards, supporting JSON and JSON-LD while accommodating various RDF ontologies; it boasts a scalable, cloud-native architecture utilizing a lightweight Java runtime, with individually scalable ledger and graph database components, embodying a "Data-Centric" ideology that treats data as a reusable asset independent of singular applications, underpinned by an immutable ledger that secures transactions with cryptographic integrity, alongside a rich RDF graph database capable of various queries, and employs SmartFunctions for enforcing data management rules, including identity and access management and data quality. -
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Grakn
Grakn Labs
Building intelligent systems starts at the database. Grakn is an intelligent database - a knowledge graph. An insanely intuitive & expressive data schema, with constructs to define hierarchies, hyper-entities, hyper-relations and rules, to build rich knowledge models. An intelligent language that performs logical inference of data types, relationships, attributes and complex patterns, during runtime, and over distributed & persisted data. Out-of-the-box distributed analytics (Pregel and MapReduce) algorithms, accessible through the language through simple queries. Strong abstraction over low-level patterns, enabling simpler expressions of complex constructs, while the system figures out the most optimal query execution. Scale your enterprise Knowledge Graph with Grakn KGMS and Workbase. A distributed database designed to scale over a network of computers through partitioning and replication. -
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HyperGraphDB
Kobrix Software
HyperGraphDB is a general purpose, open-source data storage mechanism based on a powerful knowledge management formalism known as directed hypergraphs. While a persistent memory model designed mostly for knowledge management, AI and semantic web projects, it can also be used as an embedded object-oriented database for Java projects of all sizes. Or a graph database, or a (non-SQL) relational database. HyperGraphDB is a storage framework based on generalized hypergraphs as its underlying data model. The unit of storage is a tuple made up of 0 or more other tuples. Each such tuple is called an atom. One could think of the data model as relational where higher-order, n-ary relationships are allowed or as graph-oriented where edges can point to an arbitrary set of nodes and other edges. Each atom has an arbitrary, strongly-typed value associated with it. The type system managing those values is embedded as a hypergraph and customizable from the ground up. -
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Graph Story
Graph Story
Companies that opt for a DIY approach for their graph database can expect 2 to 3 months for a production-ready implementation. With Graph Story’s managed service, your production-ready database is available within minutes. Learn more about graph use cases as well as see a comparison between self-hosting and using a managed service. We can deploy where your servers already live: AWS, Azure, or Google Compute Engine, in any region. Need VPC peering or IP-restricted access? Just let us know. We're flexible like that. Building a proof of concept? Fire up a single, enterprise graph instance with a few clicks. Need to move up to a high-availability, production-ready cluster on-demand? We've got you covered! We built graph db management tools so you don't have to! See CPU, Memory and Disk utilization at glance. Get access to configs, logs, backup your database & restore snapshots.Starting Price: $299 per month -
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HugeGraph
HugeGraph
HugeGraph is a fast-speed and highly-scalable graph database. Billions of vertices and edges can be easily stored into and queried from HugeGraph due to its excellent OLTP ability. As compliance to Apache TinkerPop 3 framework, various complicated graph queries can be accomplished through Gremlin (a powerful graph traversal language). Among its features, it provides compliance to Apache TinkerPop 3, supporting Gremlin. Schema Metadata Management, including VertexLabel, EdgeLabel, PropertyKey and IndexLabel. Multi-type Indexes, supporting exact query, range query and complex conditions combination query. Plug-in Backend Store Driver Framework, supporting RocksDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, HBase and MySQL now and easy to add other backend store driver if needed. Integration with Hadoop/Spark. HugeGraph relies on the TinkerPop framework, we refer to the storage structure of Titan and the schema definition of DataStax. -
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RushDB
RushDB
RushDB is an open-source zero-configuration graph database that instantly transforms JSON and CSV into a fully normalized, queryable Neo4j graph - without the overhead of schema design, migrations, or manual indexing. Designed for modern applications, AI, and ML workflows, RushDB provides a frictionless developer experience, combining the flexibility of NoSQL with the structured power of relational databases. With automatic data normalization, ACID compliance, and a powerful API, RushDB eliminates the complexities of data ingestion, relationship management, and query optimization - so you can focus on building, not database administration. Key Features: 1. Zero Configuration, Instant Data Ingestion 2. Graph-Powered Storage & Queries 3. ACID Transactions & Schema Evolution 4. Developer-Centric API: Query Like an SDK 5. High-Performance Search & Analytics 6. Self-Hosted or Cloud-ReadyStarting Price: $9/month -
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Neo4j
Neo4j
Neo4j’s graph data platform is purpose-built to leverage not only data but also data relationships. Using Neo4j, developers build intelligent applications that traverse today's large, interconnected datasets in real time. Powered by a native graph storage and processing engine, Neo4j’s graph database delivers an intuitive, flexible and secure database for unique, actionable insights. -
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xtendr
xtendr
xtendr unhides detailed, privacy-preserving insights across multiple independent data sources. xtendr enables access to thus far inaccessible data, and protects you during your entire data lifecycle, giving you confidence in complete privacy and regulatory compliance. xtendr is more than anonymity, it’s the critical missing piece for multi-party data sharing with true privacy protection - it is cryptography on duty so you can reach your full potential. The most advanced privacy-enhancing data collaboration technology. xtendr solved the decades-long cryptography challenge of data sharing between mutually mistrustful parties. Take your business further with an enterprise-grade data protection offering that allows individual organizations to form data partnerships while protecting sensitive data. Data is the currency of our digital age. Some argue that it is replacing oil as the world's most valuable resource and there is no doubt about its growing importance. -
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Cayley
Cayley
Cayley is an open-source database for Linked Data. It is inspired by the graph database behind Google's Knowledge Graph (formerly Freebase). Cayley is an open-source graph database designed for ease of use and storing complex data. Built-in query editor, visualizer and REPL. Cayley can use multiple query languages like Gizmo, a query language inspired by Gremlin, GraphQL-inspired query language, MQL a simplified version for Freebase fans. Cayley is modular, easy to connect to your favorite programming languages and back-end stores, production ready, well tested and used by various companies for their production workloads and fast with optimized specifically for usage in applications. Rough performance testing shows that, on 2014 consumer hardware and an average disk, 134m quads in LevelDB is no problem and a multi-hop intersection query- films starring X and Y - takes ~150ms. Cayley is configured by default to run in memory (That's what backend memstore means). -
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GraphBase
FactNexus
GraphBase is a Graph Database Management System (Graph DBMS) engineered to simplify the creation and maintenance of complex data graphs. Complex and highly-connected structures are a challenge for the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). A graph database provides much better modelling utility, performance and scalability. The current crop of graph database products - the triplestores and property graphs - have been around for nearly two decades. They're powerful tools, they have many uses, but they're still not suited to the management of complex data structures. With GraphBase, our goal was to simplify the management of complex data structures, so that your data could become something more. It could become Knowledge. We achieved this by redefining how graph data should be managed. In GraphBase, the graph is a first-class citizen. You get a graph equivalent of the "rows and tables" paradigm that makes a Relational Database so easy to use. -
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Graph Engine
Microsoft
Graph Engine (GE) is a distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine. The distributed RAM store provides a globally addressable high-performance key-value store over a cluster of machines. Through the RAM store, GE enables the fast random data access power over a large distributed data set. The capability of fast data exploration and distributed parallel computing makes GE a natural large graph processing platform. GE supports both low-latency online query processing and high-throughput offline analytics on billion-node large graphs. Schema does matter when we need to process data efficiently. Strongly-typed data modeling is crucial for compact data storage, fast data access, and clear data semantics. GE is good at managing billions of run-time objects of varied sizes. One byte counts as the number of objects goes large. GE provides fast memory allocation and reallocation with high memory ratios. -
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Aster SQL-GR
Teradata
Powerful graph analytics with ease. Aster SQL-GR™ is a native graph processing engine for Graph Analysis that makes it easy to solve complex business problems such as social network/influencer analysis, fraud detection, supply chain management, network analysis and threat detection, and money laundering that are more impactful than simple graph navigation analysis. SQL-GR is based on the Bulk Synchronous Processing (BSP) model and uses massively iterative, distributed & parallel processing to solve complex graph problems. SQL-GR is massively scalable as it is based on the BSP iterative processing model and takes advantage of Teradata Aster’s massively scalable parallel processing (MPP) architecture to distribute the graph processing across multiple servers/nodes. SQL-GR is not bound by memory limits or to a single server/node. Easily apply unmatched power and speed to perform complex graph analysis at big data scale.
