Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to FalkorDB – Open-source graph database major update (C/Rust)
Hey HN, I’m Roi, one of the co-creators of FalkorDB. We’re a growing team working on a graph database designed for production workloads and GraphRAG systems. The new release (v4.10.0) is out, and I wanted to share some of the updates and ask for feedback from folks who care about performance, memory efficiency in graph-heavy systems. FalkorDB is an open-source property graph database that supports OpenCypher (with our own extensions) and is used under the hood for retrieval-augmented generation setups where accuracy matters. The big problem we’re working on is scaling graph databases without…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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The team behind RedisGraph decided to take a stab at bringing this disruptive technology back to market. We plan to rebrand it and release it as a stand alone product, following the same guidelines we have followed for the last 6 years: * Working in the open with the community * Always provide superior performance. * Easy to adapt
2023 · 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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2022 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · terminusdb.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I've talked about glidesort a few times on HN already, but it's finally ready for release. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. An academic paper on glidesort that goes into a lot more detail than the readme is upcoming, but is not ready yet. I will be giving a talk on glidesort tomorrow at FOSDEM 2023 in the Rust Devroom at 16:10, you can seek me out there as well. In other news, I am leaving academia soon, so if you have interesting (Rust) jobs the coming months feel free to approach me.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs. In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take…
2025 · drawdb.app · 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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HelixDB▲105An open-source OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust.
Feb 2026 · helix-db.com · its alternatives →
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Layout is a rust library and a tool that renders Graphviz dot files. - nadavrot/layout
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data. - terminusdb/terminusdb
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A graph database that supports more than 100+ billion data, high performance and scalability (Include OLTP Engine & REST-API & Backends) - hugegraph/hugegraph
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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QoreDB▲95The fast, open-source database client built with Rust
Mar 2026 · qoredb.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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Embedded graph memory for AI agents, mobile apps, and the browser. - project-minigraf/minigraf
16d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rerun 0.21 comes with a new graph viewer that's written in Rust and runs in the browser via wasm. It's powered by a new force based layout engine that is a port of much of d3-force to Rust. (The release also contains some other cool stuff like undo/redo implemented on top of a timeseries DB.) We built this with applications in robotics and spatial computing in mind but would love to hear feedback from folks that would see this as useful in other domains as well.
2024 · rerun.io · 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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I believe the best way to learn a language is by doing an in-depth project. This is my first Zig project intended for learning the ropes on publishing a Zig package. It turns out to be quite solid and performant. It might be a bit over-engineered. This little library is packed with the following features: - Building dependency graph from dependency data. - Performing topological sort on the dependency graph. - Generating dependence-free subsets for parallel processing. - Cycle detection and cycle reporting.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Memgraph 1.0 is now production-ready, offering high-performance, in-memory graph database with Cypher support.
2020 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →
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Python library for embedding large graphs in 2D space, using force-directed layouts. - H4kor/graph-force
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data. - amark/gun
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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