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Galaxybase

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by CreateLink (Zhejiang Chuanglin Technology) · since 2019 · also known as 银河图数据库

Chinese native distributed graph database for HTAP graph workloads in banking and energy.

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Overview

Galaxybase is a commercial, native distributed property-graph database from CreateLink (Zhejiang Chuanglin Technology) in Hangzhou. Its storage layout is designed for fast traversals and single-edge lookups, and it supports concurrent transactional and analytical graph workloads (HTAP), as described in a VLDB 2024 paper. It is deployed mainly by Chinese banks, power grids and telecoms for risk control and knowledge graphs, and the vendor now bundles it with graph-RAG and enterprise AI products. Documentation and support are primarily in Chinese.

Graph traversalGraph analyticsHybrid (HTAP)Knowledge graphRAG & AI memory

Strengths & trade-offs

Strengths

  • +Native distributed storage optimized for traversal and single-edge queries
  • +HTAP design runs transactional and analytical graph work together
  • +Production references across major Chinese banks, grids and telecoms

Trade-offs

  • −Limited English documentation and international presence
  • −Proprietary with no public pricing
  • −Few independent benchmarks or community resources

Great for

  • +Bank risk control and anti-fraud
  • +Power-grid topology analysis
  • +Enterprise knowledge graphs
  • +Graph-enhanced RAG

Think twice for

  • −Teams needing English-first support
  • −Open-source deployments
  • −RDF/SPARQL workloads

Capabilities

Native or official first-party support · 4 of 25 tracked

✓Transactions
✓Secondary indexes
✓Durable persistence
✓Role-based access
–Joins
–Full-text search
–Vector search
–Geospatial
–JSON
–Change data capture
–Triggers
–Stored procedures
–Materialized views
–TTL / expiry
–Pub/Sub
–Columnar storage
–In-memory
–Compression
–Encryption at rest
–Time travel
–Branching
–Online schema changes
–Streaming ingest
–Offline sync
–Runs in WebAssembly

Scale & consistency

Comfortable data size
Large · ≤ 1 PB
Horizontal scaling
Native
Multi-region
No
Transactions
Full ACID
Consistency
Strong
Schema
Strict
Architecture
Distributed, Client server
Query languages
Cypher

Distributed parallel architecture for very large graphs.

Deployment

Self-hosted Vendor-managed cloud Serverless Embedded Edge Kubernetes operator

Ecosystem

used byAgricultural Bank of China, China Minsheng Bank, Bank of Communications, State Grid, China Mobile

Alternatives to Galaxybase

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NebulaGraphGraph18.1

Shared-nothing distributed graph database for trillion-edge graphs, with GQL in Enterprise v5.

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TigerGraphGraph16.6

Distributed MPP graph database built for deep-link analytics on very large graphs.

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UltipaGraph0.0

Commercial distributed graph database marketed as built natively for ISO GQL.

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Apache HugeGraphGraph9.3

Apache graph database from Baidu with Gremlin and Cypher, pluggable backends and a distributed store.

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Neo4jGraph61.2

The default property-graph database, with Cypher, a big ecosystem and a managed cloud.

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JanusGraphGraph25.2

Open-source distributed graph database layered on Cassandra, HBase, ScyllaDB or Bigtable.

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Galaxybase FAQ

What is Galaxybase?

Galaxybase is a graph database by CreateLink (Zhejiang Chuanglin Technology), first released in 2019. Galaxybase is a commercial, native distributed property-graph database from CreateLink (Zhejiang Chuanglin Technology) in Hangzhou. Its storage layout is designed for fast traversals and single-edge lookups, and it supports concurrent transactional and analytical graph workloads (HTAP), as described in a VLDB 2024 paper. It is deployed mainly by Chinese banks, power grids and telecoms for risk control and knowledge graphs, and the vendor now bundles it with graph-RAG and enterprise AI products. Documentation and support are primarily in Chinese.

Is Galaxybase open source?

No. Galaxybase is proprietary, closed-source software.

Does Galaxybase support ACID transactions?

Yes. Galaxybase supports full ACID transactions, with strong consistency.

Does Galaxybase scale horizontally?

Galaxybase scales horizontally out of the box, with built-in sharding or partitioning. It is comfortable at large scale (≤ 1 PB).

How can I run Galaxybase?

You can self-host it.

What is Galaxybase best for?

Galaxybase is a strong fit for bank risk control and anti-fraud; power-grid topology analysis; and enterprise knowledge graphs. Think twice for teams needing English-first support.

What are the best alternatives to Galaxybase?

Common alternatives to Galaxybase include NebulaGraph, TigerGraph, Ultipa, Apache HugeGraph and Neo4j. The right choice depends on your workload, scale and hosting; WhichDB's smart match ranks them against your requirements.

How popular is Galaxybase?

Galaxybase has little measurable public adoption today, so it ranks near the bottom of the WhichDB Score.