pg_petgraph vs FalkorDB

pg_petgraph is a other database; FalkorDB is a property graph database. pg_petgraph (2026-07, MIT, Rust) is not ranked this month; FalkorDB (2018-07, SSPL-1.0, C) ranks #5.

Attribute pg_petgraph — FalkorDB #5 ▲1 Leader
At a glance
Rank — Not ranked#5
Score —69.8
GitHub stars 210.5k
Popularity —68.1
Activity —78.6
Community —69.8
Research —55.3
Fundamentals
Description A PostgreSQL extension that exposes graph algorithms as plain SQL functions. Each function takes arrays of source and target node ids and returns a table, covering PageRank, betweenness, closeness and eigenvector centrality, strongly and weakly connected components, Louvain community detection, Dijkstra, topological sort and cycle detection.A property graph database that runs as a Redis module, formerly RedisGraph. Uses GraphBLAS sparse matrix operations for query execution, enabling parallel graph traversal.
Vendor alitrackFalkorDB
Model OtherProperty Graph
Kind extensiondatabase
Category EmergingEstablished
First released 2026-072018-07
Status activeactive
License MITSSPL-1.0
Written in RustC
Query languages SQLopenCypher
gdotv support noyes

Feature scores — not surveyed for pg_petgraph

Feature pg_petgraphFalkorDB
Community & Business
Active development —✓
Commercial support —✓
Live community —✓
Open Source —✓
Pricing —✓
Trendiness —0.5
Deployment
Containerization —✓
Work as dedicated instance —✓
Work as embedded —·
Testing in-memory version —✓
Platform
Operating on Linux —✓
Operating on Windows —0.75
SaaS offering —·
Operations
Automatic updates —·
Client side caching —0.5
Data versioning support —·
Live backups —0.5
Distribution
Cluster Re-balancing —·
Data Distribution —·
High-Availability —0.5
Query Distribution —·
Replication support —✓
Developer Experience
Data types defined —✓
Logging/Auditing —0.5
Object-Graph Mapper —✓
Reactive programming —0.5
Documentation up-to-date —✓
Binary protocol —✓
CLI —✓
GUI —·
Data Model
Multi-database —·
Graph-native data —✓
REST API —✓
Query Language —✓
Transactions
Granular locking —·
Multiple isolation levels —·
Read committed transaction —·
Transaction support —✓
Schema & Security
Constraints —✓
Schema support —·
Secondary indexes —✓
Server side procedures —✓
Triggers —0.5
Authentication —0.5
Authorization —0.5
Data encryption —0.5