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ONgDB

A community fork of Neo4j Enterprise Edition 3.4 maintained by the Graph Foundation under GPLv3 and AGPLv3. Continues development of high-availability clustering and ACID transactions, with Cypher rebranded as Geequel.

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Overall rank
#128
First released
2018
License
GPL-3.0 OR AGPL-3.0
Built with
Java

Details

Vendor
Graph Foundation
Type
Property Graph
Category
Emerging
License
GPL-3.0 OR AGPL-3.0
Language
Java
Query Languages
Cypher
Protocols
BoltHTTP/REST
Sources 4 references

Protocols Bolt, HTTP/REST

Docker image binds 7474 (HTTP) and 7687 (Bolt), matching its Neo4j 3.4 lineage.

License GPL-3.0 OR AGPL-3.0

Confirms current value. The repository mixes a GPLv3-licensed Community edition with an AGPLv3-licensed Enterprise edition rather than a single license.

  • Our Community edition (in the link:community/[community/] directory) is GPLv3. Our Enterprise edition (link:enterprise/[enterprise/]) is differently licensed under the AGPLv3.
    README.asciidoc — graphfoundation/ongdb · reviewed 2026-08-02

Released 2018

Confirms current value. Graph Foundation, Inc. was formed around June 2018 specifically to fork Neo4j Enterprise after Neo4j closed its source; ONgDB 3.5 was already public and had reached 1,000 downloads by March 2019 per the Neo4j v. Graph Foundation trademark complaint. The current GitHub repository (created 2018-11-21) reflects a later 'clean slate' 1.0 relaunch in July 2021, not the original release.

Language Java

Confirms current value. No page states 'written in Java' outright, but the project is a Maven-built JVM project (and a direct fork of the Java-based Neo4j Enterprise/Community codebase), with Java the dominant language in the source tree over Scala.