7 Months, 7 Continents: The Complete Map of Graph Technology

7 Months, 7 Continents: The Complete Map of Graph Technology

Maya Natarajan Jun 18, 2026 13 min read

Which graph database should you choose? Which knowledge graph platform fits your use case? And where does GraphRAG fit in? For seven months, we mapped the entire graph technology ecosystem – 7 categories, 128 products, 113 vendors – so you…

Locating the Graph Application Development Continent

Locating the Graph Application Development Continent

George Anadiotis May 21, 2026 11 min read

Most graph projects don’t fail because of the graph back end. They fail because there’s no good way to turn the graph into something people can use. Graph Application Development…

Surveying the Graph Engines Terrain

Surveying the Graph Engines Terrain

Maya Natarajan May 7, 2026 7 min read

Graph Engines: the layer where graph-shaped computation runs over your existing systems instead of inside a new database of its own. Graph engines turn warehouses, relational databases, event streams, and…

GraphAI as the Emerging Frontier on the Graph World Map

GraphAI as the Emerging Frontier on the Graph World Map

Maya Natarajan Apr 23, 2026 11 min read

State of the Graph is mapping a new frontier: how graphs are being used inside AI systems.  GraphAI is the category where graph structure stops being passive infrastructure and starts…

Charting the Graph Frontier with Graph Visualization

Charting the Graph Frontier with Graph Visualization

George Anadiotis Apr 9, 2026 8 min read

Graphs are how we see structure in messy, connected data: people and their relationships, systems and dependencies, concepts and citations. The landscape of graph visualization tooling is sprawling, ranging from…