Proprietary Graph Database Popularity Ranking

Neptune leads with a score of 61.9, followed by TigerGraph (59.5) and Stardog (58.4) — 37 engines ranked, May 2026.

#	Name	Score	Tier	Type	License	Language	Query Languages
1	Neptune	61.9	Strong	Multiple	Proprietary	-	GremlinSPARQLopenCypher
2	TigerGraph	59.5	Strong	Property Graph	Proprietary	C++	GSQL
3	Stardog	58.4	Strong	RDF	Proprietary	Java	GraphQLSPARQLSQL
4	AllegroGraph	55.7	Strong	RDF	Proprietary	Common Lisp	PrologSPARQL
5	Google Cloud BigQuery Graph	54.5	Strong	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	GQLSQL/PGQ
6	SAP Hana	54.3	Strong	Multiple	Proprietary	C++	GraphScriptSQLopenCypher
7	Cosmos DB	52.9	Strong	Multiple	Proprietary	-	GremlinSQL
8	DataStax Enterprise	51.2	Strong	Property Graph	Proprietary	Java	CQLGremlin
9	PuppyGraph	51.0	Strong	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	GremlinopenCypher
10	MarkLogic	50.8	Strong	Multiple	Proprietary	C++	SPARQLSQLXQuery
11	Oracle Graph	50.6	Strong	Multiple	Proprietary	Java	PGQLSPARQLSQL/PGQ
12	GraphBase	50.1	Strong	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	GraphQL
13	Ontotext GraphDB	49.4	Growing	RDF	Proprietary	Java	SPARQL
14	Google Cloud Spanner Graph	47.7	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	GQLSQL/PGQ
15	Cray Graph Engine	47.0	Growing	Other	Proprietary	C++	SPARQL
16	Dydra	46.1	Growing	RDF	Proprietary	-	GraphQLSPARQL
17	RDFox	45.7	Growing	RDF	Proprietary	C++	SPARQL
18	ByteGraph	45.2	Growing	Other	Proprietary	C++	Gremlin
19	Ultipa	45.1	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	UQL
20	TAO	45.0	Growing	Other	Proprietary	C++	TAO API
21	SparkleDB	43.4	Growing	RDF	Proprietary	-	SPARQL
22	Huawei Graph Engine Service	43.3	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	GremlinopenCypher
23	Prometheux	43.1	Growing	Other	Proprietary	-	Vadalog
24	FaunaDB	42.4	Growing	Multiple	Proprietary	Scala	FQLGraphQL
25	Altair Graph Lakehouse	42.2	Growing	RDF	Proprietary	C++	SPARQLopenCypher
26	Sparksee	41.6	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	C++	openCypher
27	Kinetica	41.1	Growing	Multiple	Proprietary	C++	SQL
28	Objectivity/DB	38.7	Growing	Other	Proprietary	C++	DO Query Language
29	Microsoft Fabric Graph	37.6	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	GQL
30	Data Graphs	37.4	Growing	Multiple	Proprietary	Rust	GQLopenCypher
31	MemGQL	36.9	Growing	Multiple	Proprietary	-	GQL
32	Alibaba GDB	36.3	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	-
33	StellarDB	36.2	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	SQLopenCypher
34	InfiniteGraph	36.0	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	Java	DO Query Language
35	GalaxyBase	35.8	Growing	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	openCypher
36	Rocketgraph	23.7	Emerging	Property Graph	Proprietary	-	Cypher
37	Tentris	18.5	Emerging	RDF	Proprietary	C++	SPARQL

1 additional engine has too little public signal to be ranked.