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24 alternatives to Amazon Neptune
Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Amazon Neptune launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Datomic▲73Distributed immutable transactional database for the cloud
2014 · datomic.com · its alternatives →
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A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability - GitHub - vesoft-inc/nebula: A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →
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Rocketgraph▲113Marketplace to buy reports of cloud services you use.
2015 · rocketgraph.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we want to share HelixDB (https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/), a project a college friend and I are working on. It’s a new database that natively intertwines graph and vector types, without sacrificing performance. It’s written in Rust and our initial focus is on supporting RAG. Here’s a video runthrough: https://screen.studio/share/szgQu3yq. Why a hybrid? Vector databases are useful for similarity queries, while graph databases are useful for relationship queries. Each stores data in a way that’s best for its main type of query (e.g.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The universal GraphQL API and CSPM tool for AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s, and tencent. - cloudgraphdev/cli
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Linux desktop in the cloud built for Machine Learning
2016 · its alternatives →
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Nebula Graph▲82Open-source graph database management system on the cloud
2022 · nebula-graph.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text search (FTS). Why graph, vector and FTS? Graph databases provide a natural cognitive model for data, vectors allow for a semantic understanding of the entities and relationships in the graph, and FTS provides more specific filtering. Many AI-driven applications attempt to combine all of these functionalities by stitching together…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Citus Cloud▲89A database for building real-time apps on billions of events
2016 · citusdata.com · its alternatives →
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🦉⚡️Serverless, distributed vector database as an API - TimeSurgeLabs/athenadb
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quicksite▲82A cloud-based business intelligence tool from Amazon
2015 · aws.amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph DB
2016 · docs.dgraph.io · its alternatives →
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A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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Now open source: the fastest, cheapest graph DB
Jul 2026 · producthunt.com · its alternatives →
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