The Best Open-Source Databases

Based on github stars

Top 50 Most Popular Open-Source Databases
by number of GitHub stars

Filtering projects by: Graph X

Rank Change 2025 Jun Project Features Stars Activity Rating
20 ↑ 21 Neo4j Graph 16,653 0.0 1.80%
22 ↑ 23 ArangoDB Graph Document 14,199 9.9 1.53%
38 ↑↑↑ 41 Apache AGE Graph Relational 4,593 8.4 0.50%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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Note that this is an alternative DB-Engines ranking focused on open-source databases only.

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