Graph database vendor TigerGraph is continuing its European expansion with the appointment of Martin Darling (pictured) as general manager for EMEA and Zeljko Dodlek as director of sales for the DACH region. The US company has also announced the opening of new offices in Munich, Germany.
During 2019, TigerGraph has hired additional engineering, sales and support staff, tripling its headcount across the region to meet growing demand.
New partnerships have also been agreed with global consultancies Accenture, Deloitte and PWC and big data specialists including Lisbon-headquartered Bi4all, London-based 6POINT6 and Solution AG, based in Zug, Switzerland.
The company's database solutions are already used by the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Google. Among other properties, graph data stores can change schemas online, continuing to serve queries.
TigerGraph's Native Parallel Graph (NPG) design focuses on both storage and computation, supporting real-time graph updates and offering built-in parallel computation, which delivers analytical and transactional workloads on the same system. Analyst house Gartner estimates that the global graph database and analytics market will grow 100% annually from 2019 to 2022, to be worth around $6bn by the end of the period.
“Europe is embracing rapid adoption of graph database technology and the expansion of our local footprint will help us capitalise on the opportunity across a wide range of use cases including supply chain management, fraud detection, AI and machine learning,” said Martin Darling, newly appointed TigerGraph general manager for EMEA.
Martin Darling joins TigerGraph following senior roles at MapR, QLogic, Hitachi Data Systems and EMC.
