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Sparksee

A property graph database (formerly DEX) that stores graphs as labelled multigraphs using bitmap data structures for compact representation. Supports ACID transactions and offers free licenses for evaluation and research use.

Overall rank
#98
First released
2008
License
Proprietary
Built with
C++

Details

Vendor
Sparsity Technologies
Type
Property Graph
Category
Established
License
Proprietary
Language
C++
Query Languages
openCypher

Feature scores

Community & Business

Active development
0%
No updates in 6+ months
Commercial support
Paid support available
Live community
0%
No community activity data
Open Source
0%
Closed source
Pricing
0%
No pricing information
Trendiness
50%
No description available

Deployment

Containerization
0%
No container image
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Can embed in application
Testing in-memory version
0%
No in-memory option

Platform

Operating on Linux
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
Windows officially supported
SaaS offering
0%
Self-hosted only

Operations

Automatic updates
0%
Manual updates only
Client side caching
0%
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
0%
No versioning
Live backups
Hot backup supported

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
0%
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
0%
No sharding
High-Availability
0%
No HA support
Query Distribution
0%
No distributed queries
Replication support
0%
No replication

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Composite data types
Logging/Auditing
0%
No logging/auditing
Object-Graph Mapper
0%
No object mapper
Reactive programming
Reactive streams supported
Documentation up-to-date
Docs current with latest version
Binary protocol
0%
Text-based protocols only
CLI
0%
No CLI
GUI
0%
No GUI

Data Model

Multi-database
0%
Graph-only
Graph-native data
Native graph storage
REST API
0%
No REST API
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
0%
No granular locking
Multiple isolation levels
Multiple isolation levels
Read committed transaction
0%
Not available
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
Full constraint support
Schema support
Schema definition tools
Secondary indexes
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
0%
No stored procedures
Triggers
0%
No triggers
Authentication
0%
No authentication
Authorization
0%
No authorization
Data encryption
Data encryption supported
Sources 3 references

License Proprietary

Confirms current value; Sparsity Technologies' own user manual states the license terms directly.

  • Sparksee is distributed under a proprietary license considering the following variables:
    Sparksee User Manual · reviewed 2026-08-02

Released 2008

Confirms current value; Sparksee was originally named DEX, developed from 2006, with its first version released in 2008.

  • In 2008, its first version was released, and DEX officially changed its name to Sparksee on its 5th release in 2014.
    Sparksee · reviewed 2026-08-02

Language C++

Confirms current value.