Rust Graph Databases, Ranked Monthly

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

TypeDB leads with a score of 64.5, followed by HelixDB (61.4) and SurrealDB (59.5) — 28 engines ranked, October 2026.

#	1mo	Score	Tier	Type	License	Language	Query Languages
1	=	64.5	Strong	Other	MPL-2.0	Rust	TypeQL
2	▲1	61.4	Strong	Other	Apache-2.0	Rust	HelixQL
3	▼1	59.5	Strong	Multiple	BUSL-1.1	Rust	GQL GraphQLSurrealQL
4	▲2	58.6	Strong	Other	MIT	Rust	Custom API
5	=	57.7	Strong	RDF	Apache-2.0 OR MIT	Rust	SPARQL
6	▼2	54.1	Strong	Property Graph	GPL-3.0	Rust	GraphQL
7	=	53.6	Strong	RDF	BUSL-1.1	Rust	FlureeQLGraphQL SPARQL
8	▲1	48.2	Growing	Property Graph	MIT	Rust	Custom API
9	▼1	45.9	Growing	Other	MPL-2.0	Rust	Datalog
10	=	45.6	Growing	Property Graph	Apache-2.0	Rust	SQL openCypher
11	=	45.4	Growing	Multiple	Apache-2.0	Rust	GQL GraphQL Gremlin +3
12	▲1	36.1	Growing	Multiple	Proprietary	Rust	GQL openCypher
13	▲1	35.6	Growing	Multiple	BUSL-1.1	Rust	SQL openCypher
14	▼2	33.2	Growing	Multiple	Proprietary	Rust	GQL
15	=	32.5	Growing	Property Graph	Apache-2.0	Rust	Custom API
16	▲1	27.1	Emerging	Property Graph	MIT	Rust	GQL
17	▼1	26.9	Emerging	Property Graph	Apache-2.0	Rust	GQL
18	▲1	25.3	Emerging	Property Graph	MIT	Rust	Custom API openCypher
19	▲2	23.0	Emerging	Other	MIT OR Apache-2.0	Rust	Datalog
20	▼2	21.5	Emerging	Other	MIT OR Apache-2.0	Rust	Custom API
21	▼1	19.6	Emerging	Property Graph	Apache-2.0	Rust	SQL
22	▲2	17.6	Emerging	Property Graph	Apache-2.0	Rust	Custom API
23	▼1	15.6	Emerging	Property Graph	MIT	Rust	Cypher GQL
24	▼1	14.2	Emerging	RDF	Apache-2.0	Rust	SPARQL
25	new	10.1	Emerging	RDF	MIT OR Apache-2.0	Rust	SPARQL openCypher
26	▲1	9.5	Emerging	Property Graph	BUSL-1.1	Rust	Cypher
27	▼2	9.1	Emerging	Property Graph	MIT OR Apache-2.0	Rust	GQL
28	▼2	8.3	Emerging	Property Graph	Elastic-2.0	Rust	Custom API

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