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C++ Graph Database Popularity Ranking

ArangoDB leads with a score of 69.4, followed by Memgraph (63.6) and QLever (62.9) — 32 engines ranked, July 2026.

# 1mo Name Score Tier Type License Language Query Languages
1 = 69.4 Leader Multiple BSL-1.1 C++ AQL
2 ▲2 63.6 Strong Property Graph BSL-1.1 C++ openCypher
3 = 62.9 Strong RDF Apache-2.0 C++ SPARQL
4 ▼2 61.4 Strong Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
5 ▲1 58.0 Strong Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
6 ▲1 57.9 Strong Property Graph Proprietary C++ GSQL
7 ▼2 56.3 Strong Multiple Proprietary C++ GraphScriptSQLopenCypher
8 ▲1 51.7 Strong Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ nGQL
9 ▲2 51.2 Strong Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ GremlinopenCypher
10 = 48.5 Growing Other Proprietary C++ TAO API
11 ▲1 47.9 Growing Multiple Proprietary C++ SPARQLSQLXQuery
12 ▼4 46.9 Growing Property Graph Apache-2.0 C++ GQLopenCypher
13 ▲1 45.7 Growing Property Graph BSL-1.1 C++ openCypher
14 ▲3 45.2 Growing Property Graph MIT C++ SQL/PGQ
15 = 44.9 Growing RDF BSD-3-Clause C++ SPARQL
16 = 42.8 Growing RDF Proprietary C++ SPARQL
17 ▼4 42.6 Growing Other Proprietary C++ SPARQL
18 ▲3 42.0 Growing Multiple Proprietary C++ SQL
19 ▲1 41.8 Growing Other BSD-3-Clause C++ openCypher
20 ▲3 40.9 Growing Other Proprietary C++ Gremlin
21 ▼3 40.3 Growing RDF Proprietary C++ SPARQLopenCypher
22 ▼3 39.1 Growing Property Graph Proprietary C++ openCypher
23 ▼1 37.8 Growing Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
24 = 35.3 Growing Multiple GPL-2.0 C++ GQLSPARQL
25 = 31.7 Growing Other BSD-3-Clause C++ Custom API
26 = 31.6 Growing Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
27 = 29.2 Emerging Other Proprietary C++ DO Query Language
28 new 24.5 Emerging Property Graph MIT C++ openCypher
29 = 20.4 Emerging Other Apache-2.0 C++ Gremlin
30 ▼2 20.0 Emerging Other BSD-3-Clause C++ openCypher
31 ▼1 16.1 Emerging RDF Proprietary C++ SPARQL
32 ▼1 15.1 Emerging Other Apache-2.0 C++ Custom API

1 additional engine has too little public signal to be ranked.