Ultipa – the Powerhouse of the graph world
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By: Daniel Howard
Classification: InBrief
Ultipa is a highly performant property graph database that leverages an in-memory parallel graph computing engine. It has been designed and built from the ground up to provide deep search and analytic capabilities that operate in real-time via an intuitive and easy to use query interface. This can be used to support the creation and use of knowledge graphs, to accelerate querying on big data sources (enhancing their visibility), and more. To wit, some Ultipa customers are currently using it to process hundreds of millions of transactions per day, in real-time. It is also translytic: it can be used for both transactional and analytical processing, as well as for HTAP (Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing).
Moreover, Ultipa is particularly notable for – and puts particular emphasis on – its ability to support AI, and especially XAI (“eXplainable AI”). For instance, the degree of performance it provides can make a very significant difference to the amount of time it takes to generate your AI models, thus allowing you to act on the predictions they make much more quickly. What is more, by analysing and discovering key features of your network and communicating them to downstream AI and modelling applications, it can be used to drive model explainability and improve model accuracy.
Ultipa’s latest major update includes an overhaul of the product’s architecture, referred to as Ultipa Powerhouse, that pushes the product’s strengths even further. Its two headline features are horizontal scalability and low memory consumption, but as we will see, these are not the only benefits this new architecture offers. In addition, Ultipa is now natively available in the cloud (as well as on-prem) via AWS, with Azure and Google Cloud also supported. Various APIs are provided, as are Ultipa Deployer for “one-click deployment” and Ultipa Transporter for data import and export.