An open-source graph database
Last updated Jul 8, 2026
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README
Cayley is an open-source database for Linked Data. It is inspired by the graph database behind Google's Knowledge Graph (formerly Freebase)).
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Features
- Built-in query editor, visualizer and REPL
- Multiple query languages:
- Modular: easy to connect to your favorite programming languages and back-end stores
- Production ready: well tested and used by various companies for their production workloads
- Fast: optimized specifically for usage in applications
Performance
Rough performance testing shows that, on 2014 consumer hardware and an average disk, 134m quads in LevelDB is no problem and a multi-hop intersection query -- films starring X and Y -- takes ~150ms.
Community
- Website: cayley.io
- Slack: cayleygraph.slack.com -- Invite here
- Discourse list: discourse.cayley.io (Also acts as mailing list, enable mailing list mode)
- Twitter: @cayleygraph
- Involvement: Contribute
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