cdapio/tigon

Tigon is a legacy infrastructure project that was highly sophisticated for its time (circa 2014), notably for its use of a C++ flow engine to bypass JVM overhead in stream processing—a 'novel combination' at the time. However, as an open-source asset, it is effectively dead. With a velocity of 0.0/hr and an age exceeding 11 years, it represents a period of Big Data history (the Hadoop era) that has been largely superseded. The parent entity, Cask Data, was acquired by Google in 2018, and their focus shifted to Cloud Data Fusion (the commercial version of CDAP). From a competitive standpoint, Tigon has been displaced by modern stream processing giants like Apache Flink, Apache Spark (Structured Streaming), and cloud-native services like Google Cloud Dataflow and AWS Kinesis. Its defensibility is near zero because, despite its technical depth, it lacks a modern user base, active maintenance, or a path to integration with modern Kubernetes-native data stacks. It is categorized here as an abandoned industrial-grade project.