Open-source alternatives to Neo4j
2 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Neo4j. Dgraph is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.
Side by side
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Dgraph | 21,813 | Active | Permissive | Docker | Go |
 JanusGraph | 5,857 | Active | Not identified | ○ | Java |
Each one, briefly
- Dgraph21,813 stars · permissive · active
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Also replaces Amazon Neptune, TigerGraph
- JanusGraph5,857 stars · not identified · active
JanusGraph: an open-source, distributed graph database
Where this comes from
Which projects are offered against Neo4j comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Neo4j. Browse every open-source alternative.