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24 alternatives to Decentralized Graph Database for Node.js and Browsers

An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data. - amark/gun

This is a decentralized graph database designed for Node.js and browser environments. It allows developers to store and query graph-structured data without relying on centralized servers. The tool targets software… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Decentralized Graph Database for Node.js and Browsers launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data. - amark/gun

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data. - Create new page · amark/gun Wiki

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data. - Create new page · amark/gun Wiki

    2016 · github.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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    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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    A graphql API for the gun p2p graph database. Contribute to brysgo/graphql-gun development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

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    ⛓ Cleargraph is a GraphQL runtime for decentralized applications - dsys/cleargraph

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS - matanolabs/matano

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! My name is Paras and I am building this project called Slashbase. It's an open-source collaborative IDE for databases in browser. Connect to your database, browse data, run a bunch of queries or share queries within your team, right from your browser. Works with two types of databases: PostgreSQL and MongoDB. It's written in Golang and Nextjs React Framework and runs as a single binary. Features: - Cloud based: Setup on your server. Works in browser. - Easy to use: with minimal interface it is simple to use. - Collaborative: Works with your teams. Easy sharing queries within team.…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A totally proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend - dividuum/fdb-nbd

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust.

    Feb 2026 · helix-db.com · 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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    Open-source protocol for a decentralized, user-owned web

    2024 · pubky.org · its alternatives →

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    A decentralised database with MongoDB-like developer interface (Fully Compatible with OrbitDB) - aviondb/aviondb

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Framework agnostic starter code for gun apps. Contribute to gundb/gun-starter-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    File-based GraphQL framework for Node.js inspired by Next.js

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open-source in-memory graph database

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Build production grade web applications in minutes

    2024 · its alternatives →

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