Details
Lineage
- Apache AGE, 2020: inspired by AgensGraph.
- YugabyteDB MAGE, 2026: based on Apache AGE.
Apache AGE
PostgreSQL extension providing graph database functionality with openCypher query support, enabling graph and relational queries on the same data.
Elsewhere
- Overall rank
- #15
- First released
- July 2020
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Built with
- C
Sources 5 references
Protocols PostgreSQL wire
PostgreSQL extension; clients connect over the standard Postgres wire protocol (psycopg, JDBC, etc.) and load the extension per-session.
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PostgreSQL, a popular relational database, can also function as a graph database through the use of an extension called Apache AGE.
Apache AGE · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2020-07
Corrects the catalogue's '2021-04'. The PostgreSQL.org announcement shows AGE (successor to AgensGraph) already publicly downloadable as v0.2.0 in July 2020; AGE actually entered the Apache Incubator in April 2020, a year earlier than the catalogue's date.
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AGE, a multi-model graph database extension for PostgreSQL has been announced. AGE is the successor to AgensGraph.
PostgreSQL: Announcing AGE, a multi-model graph database extension for PostgreSQL · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language C
Confirms the current value.
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AGE is not a Trusted Language Extension as it is written in C.
Is age a trusted extension? · apache/age · Discussion #1631 · GitHub · reviewed 2026-08-02
License Apache-2.0
SPDX identifier as classified by GitHub from the repository licence file.
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"spdx_id": "Apache-2.0"
GitHub licence API — apache/age · reviewed 2026-08-02
Lineage inspired by AgensGraph
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AGE is an acronym for A Graph Extension and is inspired by Bitnine's AgensGraph, a multi-model database fork of PostgreSQL.
apache/age · reviewed 2026-09-23