Graph Engine vs FalkorDB

Both are property graph databases. Graph Engine (2015-05, MIT, C#) ranks #73 this month; FalkorDB (2018-07, SSPL-1.0, C) ranks #5.

Attribute Graph Engine #73 ▼5 Growing FalkorDB #5 ▲1 Leader
At a glance
Rank #73#5
Score 42.769.8
GitHub stars 2.3k10.5k
Popularity 54.468.1
Activity 46.478.6
Community —69.8
Research 51.255.3
Fundamentals
Description A distributed, in-memory graph processing engine developed by Microsoft Research, originally known as Trinity. Supports large-scale graph computation on a memory cloud architecture.A property graph database that runs as a Redis module, formerly RedisGraph. Uses GraphBLAS sparse matrix operations for query execution, enabling parallel graph traversal.
Vendor MicrosoftFalkorDB
Model Property GraphProperty Graph
Kind databasedatabase
Category EnterpriseEstablished
First released 2015-052018-07
Status inactive — Microsoft Research project. Limited recent activity.active
License MITSSPL-1.0
Written in C#C
Query languages LIKQopenCypher
gdotv support noyes

Feature scores — not surveyed for Graph Engine

Feature Graph EngineFalkorDB
Community & Business
Active development —✓
Commercial support —✓
Live community —✓
Open Source —✓
Pricing —✓
Trendiness —0.5
Deployment
Containerization —✓
Work as dedicated instance —✓
Work as embedded —·
Testing in-memory version —✓
Platform
Operating on Linux —✓
Operating on Windows —0.75
SaaS offering —·
Operations
Automatic updates —·
Client side caching —0.5
Data versioning support —·
Live backups —0.5
Distribution
Cluster Re-balancing —·
Data Distribution —·
High-Availability —0.5
Query Distribution —·
Replication support —✓
Developer Experience
Data types defined —✓
Logging/Auditing —0.5
Object-Graph Mapper —✓
Reactive programming —0.5
Documentation up-to-date —✓
Binary protocol —✓
CLI —✓
GUI —·
Data Model
Multi-database —·
Graph-native data —✓
REST API —✓
Query Language —✓
Transactions
Granular locking —·
Multiple isolation levels —·
Read committed transaction —·
Transaction support —✓
Schema & Security
Constraints —✓
Schema support —·
Secondary indexes —✓
Server side procedures —✓
Triggers —0.5
Authentication —0.5
Authorization —0.5
Data encryption —0.5