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Google Cayley

An open-source RDF graph database inspired by the graph database behind Google's Knowledge Graph (Freebase). Features pluggable backend storage and multiple query language support.

Details

Vendor
Cayley Community
Type
RDF
Category
Emerging
Status
Inactive — No significant development activity since 2020.
License
Apache-2.0
Query Languages
Gizmo, GraphQL, MQL

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Feature Scores

Community & Business

Active development
Updated 3-6 months ago
Commercial support
No commercial support
Live community
No community activity data
Open Source
Open source license
Pricing
No pricing information
Trendiness

Deployment

Containerization
Docker image available
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Can embed in application
Testing in-memory version
In-memory mode available

Platform

Operating on Linux
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
Not supported
SaaS offering
Self-hosted only

Operations

Automatic updates
Manual updates only
Client side caching
Data versioning support
No versioning
Live backups
No live backups

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
Data sharding supported
High-Availability
Query Distribution
Distributed query execution
Replication support
Replication available

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Composite data types
Logging/Auditing
Event logging supported
Object-Graph Mapper
OGM/ORM available
Reactive programming
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
Docs current with latest version
Binary protocol
Text-based protocols only
CLI
Command-line interface
GUI
Visual interface available

Data Model

Multi-database
Graph-only
Graph-native data
Native graph storage
REST API
REST endpoint available
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
No granular locking
Multiple isolation levels
Read uncommitted only
Read committed transaction
Not available
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
Uniqueness constraints only
Schema support
Constraints/triggers only
Secondary indexes
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
No stored procedures
Triggers
No triggers
Authentication
No authentication
Authorization
No authorization
Data encryption
No encryption