Specialized Graph Databases, Ranked Monthly

Specialized graph databases, ranked monthly by adoption, activity, community and research signals.

TypeDB leads with a score of 68.5, followed by HelixDB (61.7) and Atomic Server (58.4) — 21 engines ranked, October 2026.

#	1mo	Name	Score	Tier	Type	License	Language	Query Languages
1	=	TypeDB	68.5	Leader	Other	MPL-2.0	Rust	TypeQL
2	=	HelixDB	61.7	Strong	Other	Apache-2.0	Rust	HelixQL
3	=	Atomic Server	58.4	Strong	Other	MIT	Rust	Custom API
4	=	CozoDB	46.2	Growing	Other	MPL-2.0	Rust	Datalog
5	▲2	Gaffer	45.7	Growing	Other	Apache-2.0	Java	Custom API
6	▼1	HyperGraphDB	45.4	Growing	Other	Apache-2.0	Java	Java API
7	▲3	RelationalAI	41.5	Growing	Other	Proprietary	Julia	RelSQL
8	▼2	FlockDB	41.3	Growing	Other	Apache-2.0	Scala	Thrift API
9	=	KatanaGraph	39.6	Growing	Other	BSD-3-Clause	C++	openCypher
10	▼2	Prometheux	39.6	Growing	Other	Proprietary	-	Vadalog
11	=	ZipG	38.3	Growing	Other	-	C++	Custom API
12	new	Vadalog	36.9	Growing	Other	-	-	Vadalog
13	▼1	ByteGraph	35.3	Growing	Other	Proprietary	C++	Gremlin
14	=	Weaver	32.6	Growing	Other	BSD-3-Clause	C++	Custom API
15	▼2	Cray Graph Engine	32.1	Growing	Other	Proprietary	C++	SPARQL
16	▼1	HGraphDB	32.0	Growing	Other	Apache-2.0	Java	Gremlin
17	▲1	Minigraf	23.5	Emerging	Other	MIT OR Apache-2.0	Rust	Datalog
18	▼2	TribleSpace	21.8	Emerging	Other	MIT OR Apache-2.0	Rust	Custom API
19	▼2	BangDB	21.4	Emerging	Other	BSD-3-Clause	C++	openCypher
20	▼1	G-Tran	20.0	Emerging	Other	Apache-2.0	C++	Gremlin
21	▼1	LiveGraph	15.1	Emerging	Other	Apache-2.0	C++	Custom API

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