C++ Graph Databases, Ranked Monthly

Graph databases implemented in C++, ranked monthly across adoption, activity, community and research signals.

ArangoDB leads with a score of 75.5, followed by Memgraph (70.6) and QLever (69.6) — 40 engines ranked, October 2026.

# 1mo Name Score Tier Type License Language Query Languages
1 = 75.5 Leader Multiple BUSL-1.1 C++ AQL
2 = 70.6 Leader Property Graph BUSL-1.1 C++ openCypher
3 = 69.6 Leader RDF Apache-2.0 C++ SPARQL
4 = 63.1 Strong Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
5 = 59.5 Strong Multiple Proprietary C++ GremlinSPARQLopenCypher
6 = 56.0 Strong Property Graph Proprietary C++ GSQL
7 = 55.8 Strong Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
8 = 52.9 Strong Multiple Proprietary C++ GremlinSQL
9 ▲2 50.5 Strong Property Graph BUSL-1.1 C++ openCypher
10 ▲6 50.0 Strong Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ openCypher
11 ▲3 49.6 Growing Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ nGQL
12 ▼3 49.6 Growing Property Graph Proprietary C++ GQLSQL/PGQ
13 ▼1 48.4 Growing Multiple Proprietary C++ GraphScriptSQLopenCypher
14 ▲1 48.1 Growing Property Graph MIT C++ SQL/PGQ
15 ▼2 48.1 Growing Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ GremlinopenCypher
16 ▲2 47.3 Growing Multiple Proprietary C++ SPARQLSQLXQuery
17 ▲5 45.5 Growing Property Graph Proprietary C++ openCypher
18 ▲2 45.2 Growing Multiple Proprietary C++ SQL
19 = 44.7 Growing RDF Proprietary C++ SPARQL
20 ▼3 44.3 Growing Property Graph Proprietary C++ GQLSQL/PGQ
21 = 43.4 Growing RDF BSD-3-Clause C++ SPARQL
22 ▼12 43.3 Growing Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ GQLopenCypher
23 = 42.0 Growing Other BSD-3-Clause C++ openCypher
24 = 41.1 Growing Property Graph Proprietary C++ GQLUQL
25 = 40.6 Growing Other - C++ Custom API
26 = 39.4 Growing Multiple GPL-2.0 C++ GQLSPARQL
27 = 39.0 Growing RDF Proprietary C++ SPARQLopenCypher
28 = 38.7 Growing Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
29 = 38.0 Growing Other Proprietary C++ Gremlin
30 = 36.2 Growing Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
31 = 36.0 Growing RDF MIT C++ SPARQL
32 = 33.2 Growing Other Proprietary C++ SPARQL
33 = 32.0 Growing Other BSD-3-Clause C++ Custom API
34 = 29.3 Emerging RDF BSD-3-Clause C++ SPARQL
35 = 28.1 Emerging Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
36 = 22.5 Emerging Other BSD-3-Clause C++ openCypher
37 = 21.3 Emerging Other Apache-2.0 C++ Gremlin
38 = 18.3 Emerging RDF Proprietary C++ SPARQL
39 = 15.3 Emerging Other Apache-2.0 C++ Custom API
40 = 13.8 Emerging Property Graph MIT C++ GQL

4 additional engines have too little public signal to be ranked.