Ask HN: What is your preferred open source graph database?

6 pointsposted 12 days ago
by nrjames

Item id: 43489420

6 Comments

laminarflow027

11 days ago

Hi! IMO you should definitely check out Kuzu - It's an embeddable, fast, highly scalable graph database with an MIT (highly permissive) open source license. Kuzu was created for broader adoption in the open source community and scales to very large graphs on a single machine. Disclaimer: I work as DevRel at Kuzu. Check out our GitHub!

https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu

YourTechBud

11 days ago

Id second this. Checks all the boxes - Embeddable (yup i use sqlite) - fast - Open source - uses Cypher and not some obscure custom language.

You may have to do a lil bit of work to get backups working. But once you get past that, it's awesome.

I think its a no brainer for anyone excited by tools like duckdb and libsql. Fits in my stack perfectly well.

acefaceZ

11 days ago

+1 for Kuzu

I would avoid Neo4j open source offerings (community edition, etc) like the plague until their court case is over. They are fighting to be able to use their interpretation of what GPL terms means - and from their past behavior - it’s probably going to be bad news for anyone who adopted it because it was open source.