Use case
Databases for Graph traversal
Multi-hop relationship queries in milliseconds (friends-of-friends, paths). The leading options are Neo4j, ArangoDB and Apache TinkerPop Gremlin Server.
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The default property-graph database, with Cypher, a big ecosystem and a managed cloud.
Native multi-model database: documents, graphs, search and vectors behind one query language.
Apache TinkerPop's reference server for running Gremlin traversals over any compatible graph.
Low-latency graph database using sparse matrices, the maintained successor to RedisGraph.
Early Java multi-model database mixing documents, graphs and objects, now in patch-only mode.
Strongly typed entity-relation database with TypeQL, polymorphic queries and a Rust core.
Open-source distributed graph database layered on Cassandra, HBase, ScyllaDB or Bigtable.
In-memory, Cypher-compatible graph database in C++ for streaming and real-time graph workloads.
Distributed, horizontally scalable graph database in Go with native GraphQL and DQL.
PostgreSQL extension that adds openCypher graph queries alongside SQL.
Shared-nothing distributed graph database for trillion-edge graphs, with GQL in Enterprise v5.
Distributed MPP graph database built for deep-link analytics on very large graphs.
AWS's managed graph database speaking Gremlin, openCypher and SPARQL on shared storage.
Multi-model Java database speaking SQL, Cypher, Gremlin, MongoDB and Redis protocols.
Rust graph-vector database on object storage, queried through typed SDKs for AI apps.
Go graph database inspired by Google's Knowledge Graph, dormant since its 2019 release.
Apache graph database from Baidu with Gremlin and Cypher, pluggable backends and a distributed store.
PostgreSQL fork with a built-in property graph model, mixing SQL, openCypher and ISO GQL.
Ant Group's open-source C++ graph database with ACID transactions, Cypher and LDBC-record performance.
Zero-ETL graph query engine that runs Cypher and Gremlin directly on your lakehouse and SQL tables.
Rust graph database, inspired by Facebook's TAO, usable as an embedded library or a gRPC server.
Lightweight Go graph database with GraphQL, an SQL-like query language, full-text search and scripting.
Embeddable C++ graph database library from Sparsity Technologies, refocused on embedded and mobile.
Gremlin graph layer on the Aerospike database for billion-edge graphs with predictable latency.
Small embeddable Java graph database for TinkerPop: in-memory, ACID, persisted to readable JSON text files.
Chinese native distributed graph database for HTAP graph workloads in banking and energy.
FactNexus's commercial graph DBMS that treats whole graphs as transactional units for knowledge graphs.
Managed hosting for Neo4j Community Edition on dedicated cloud instances, with backups and replicas.
Commercial distributed graph database marketed as built natively for ISO GQL.
Google's globally consistent, horizontally scaling SQL service with graph, vector and full-text built in.
Rust multi-model database (documents, graph, vectors, live queries) that runs embedded, in WASM or clustered.
Immutable RDF graph database with time travel, git-style branching, SPARQL, JSON-LD and Cypher.
MIT-licensed RDF triple store for .NET with SPARQL and a LINQ-based entity framework; dormant since 2020.
Downloadable Spanner that runs on your own servers, other clouds or a laptop, with Paxos and auto-sharding.
C# .NET object database with a graph layer (VelocityGraph); last release 11.1.1 in 2022.
Hosted RDF triple store with SPARQL 1.1, valid-time indexing and an MCP endpoint on every repository.
Enterprise knowledge-graph platform: RDF store, reasoning and virtual graphs over your sources.
Converged C/C++ NoSQL platform mixing key-value, documents, time-series, stream processing, graph and ML.
deprecated, discontinued & research · 12
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