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TuringDB

An in-memory, column-oriented property graph database engine focused on analytical and read-intensive workloads over large graphs.

Visit website GitHub 180 stars
Overall rank
#53
First released
2025
License
BUSL-1.1
Built with
C++

Details

Vendor
Turing Biosystems
Type
Property Graph
Category
Emerging
License
BUSL-1.1
Language
C++
Query Languages
openCypher
Protocols
HTTP/REST
Sources 6 references

Protocols HTTP/REST

Python SDK offers a JSON backend and a binary (Turing proto) backend, but both ride HTTP against the daemon on :6666 — a payload encoding, not a separate wire protocol. Embedded mode is in-process and carries no protocol tag.

  • JSON payloads over HTTP against a running daemon
    Reference · reviewed 2026-08-02
  • Binary (Turing proto) payloads over HTTP — faster; requires the compiled extension
    Reference · reviewed 2026-08-02
  • TuringDB is queried over HTTP; Neo4j and Memgraph over Bolt.
    turing-db/turingdb · reviewed 2026-08-02

License BUSL-1.1

Corrected from 'BSL-1.1' to 'BUSL-1.1': the LICENSE file is the Business Source License 1.1 (shown as NOASSERTION on GitHub), whose SPDX id is BUSL-1.1, not BSL-1.1 (the unrelated Boost licence).

  • TuringDB Community Edition is licensed under the Business Source License (BSL). See [LICENSE](https://github.com/turing-db/turingdb/blob/main/LICENSE) for details.
    turingdb/README.md · reviewed 2026-08-02

Language C++

Confirms the current value; README states the engine is built in C++, and GitHub's byte-count is dominated by C++.

  • TuringDB is a high-performance, in-memory, column-oriented graph database engine, built in C++ for analytical, AI-driven, and read-intensive workloads.
    turingdb/README.md · reviewed 2026-08-02

Released 2025

No tagged GitHub releases predate v1.20 (Feb 2026), and the GitHub repo itself was only made public 2025-08-01, so there is no formal 'first release' artifact. The earliest Internet Archive snapshot with fully rendered marketing content (the site is a client-rendered SPA; earlier 2025 snapshots only captured the page shell) is from 2025-11-09 and already describes TuringDB as a working graph database engine, supporting 2025 as the year it went public.