survey of property graph software

[bhpayne]

The initial issue for migrating to a property graph (allofphysicsgraph/proofofconcept#171) mentioned "Gremlin with TinkerPop" and Neo4j/Cypher.

This issue is a broader survey of property graph software.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking/graph+dbms

See also "Demystifying Graph Databases: Analysis and Taxonomy of Data Organization, System Designs, and Graph Queries", https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.09017.pdf

Example comparison: https://db-engines.com/en/system/Blazegraph%3BNeo4j%3BOrientDB

[bhpayne]

https://memgraph.com/

"Drop-in replacement for Neo4j graph database with full Cypher and Bolt compatibility."

has open-source and free repos:

• https://github.com/memgraph/memgraph
• https://github.com/memgraph/documentation

4 years old? No entry on wikipedia

Not much traffic on news.ycombinator.com beyond https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165172 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24651091

[bhpayne]

GraphDB -- not free; not open source

https://www.ontotext.com/products/graphdb/

[bhpayne]

OrientDB - https://orientdb.org/

open source and free: https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb

[bhpayne]

Titan - https://titan.thinkaurelius.com/

Aimed at multi-node scalability

https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/

[bhpayne]

Gremlin query language with TinkerPop database

https://tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org/

[bhpayne]

https://blazegraph.com/

https://github.com/blazegraph/tinkerpop3

[bhpayne]

TODO: move this ticket to a "comparison of" page under developer documentation