GDB-Engines Rankings
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Specialized Graph Database Popularity Ranking

TypeDB leads with a score of 64.6, followed by HelixDB (64.0) and Atomic Server (49.1) — 20 engines ranked, May 2026.

# Name Score Tier Type License Language Query Languages
1 64.6 Strong Other MPL-2.0 Rust TypeQL
2 64.0 Strong Other AGPL-3.0 Rust HelixQL
3 49.1 Growing Other MIT Rust Custom API
4 46.6 Growing Other Apache-2.0 Java Custom API
5 45.8 Growing Other Proprietary C++ TAO API
6 45.0 Growing Other Apache-2.0 Scala Thrift API
7 44.0 Growing Other Apache-2.0 Java Java API
8 42.9 Growing Other Proprietary C++ SPARQL
9 41.6 Growing Other BSD-3-Clause C++ openCypher
10 40.4 Growing Other Proprietary C++ Gremlin
11 40.2 Growing Other - Java Custom API
12 39.6 Growing Other Proprietary - Vadalog
13 38.0 Growing Other Proprietary C++ DO Query Language
14 34.0 Growing Other BSD-3-Clause C++ Custom API
15 33.7 Growing Other Apache-2.0 Java Gremlin
16 26.7 Emerging Other MIT Python Custom API
17 20.7 Emerging Other Apache-2.0 C++ Gremlin
18 19.7 Emerging Other BSD-3-Clause C++ openCypher
19 16.8 Emerging Other MIT OR Apache-2.0 Rust Custom API
20 15.4 Emerging Other Apache-2.0 C++ Custom API

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