Details
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Type
- Property Graph
- Category
- Enterprise
- Status
- Inactive — Microsoft Research project. Limited recent activity.
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C#
- Query Languages
- LIKQ
- Protocols
- HTTP/RESTNative binary
Graph Engine
A distributed, in-memory graph processing engine developed by Microsoft Research, originally known as Trinity. Supports large-scale graph computation on a memory cloud architecture.
- Overall rank
- #38
- First released
- May 2015
- License
- MIT
- Built with
- C#
Details
Sources 6 references
Protocols Native binary, HTTP/REST
Official TSL docs describe three protocol types: Syn/Asyn (native binary, TCP) for inter-server and client messaging, and HTTP protocols that expose a RESTful JSON endpoint per protocol definition.
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Three types of protocols are supported in GE: synchronous protocols, asynchronous protocols, and HTTP protocols.
Message Passing Protocols · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
An HTTP protocol is a synchronous remote call. It is the RESTful version of Syn protocol.
Message Passing Protocols · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2015-05
Adds the month: Microsoft Research's Trinity project (renamed Graph Engine) was released to the public as a 1.0 preview in May 2015, well before the GitHub repo was created in 2017 when it was later open-sourced.
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Microsoft Research's Project Trinity is now available for public testing in the form of Graph Engine 1.0 public preview.
Microsoft quietly delivers first preview of Graph Engine | ZDNET · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
We are very pleased to announce that the Graph Engine 1.0 preview has finally been released to the public.
Trinity - Microsoft Research · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language C#
Confirms current value; the project builds and ships as .NET/NuGet packages via Visual Studio, with C++ present only for native storage/build tooling.
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You can find the built NuGet packages `build/GraphEngine**._version_.nupkg` in the `build` folder.
README.md (microsoft/GraphEngine) · reviewed 2026-08-02
License MIT
SPDX identifier as classified by GitHub from the repository licence file.
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"spdx_id": "MIT"
GitHub licence API — microsoft/GraphEngine · reviewed 2026-08-02