How We Build the Map: Methodology, Criteria, and Edge Cases
A map is only as useful as its criteria are clear. The thinking behind categories, criteria, and how to get listed. State of the Graph is vendor-neutral by design. That neutrality is not a stance or a marketing claim. It…
7 Months, 7 Continents: The Complete Map of Graph Technology
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…
Locating the Graph Application Development Continent
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
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
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…




