iddan/cayley repository overview

Cayley is an open-source graph inspired by the graph database behind Freebase⁠ and Google's Knowledge Graph⁠.

Its goal is to be a part of the developer's toolbox where Linked Data⁠ and graph-shaped data (semantic webs, social networks, etc) in general are concerned.

⁠Features

• Community driven
• Written in Go⁠
  • can be used as a Go library
• Easy to get running (3 or 4 commands)
• RESTful API
  • or a REPL if you prefer
• Built-in query editor and visualizer
• Multiple query languages:
  • Gizmo⁠ - a JavaScript, with a Gremlin⁠-inspired* graph object.
  • GraphQL⁠-inspired* query language.
  • (simplified) MQL⁠, for Freebase⁠ fans
• Plays well with multiple backend stores:
  • KVs: Bolt⁠, LevelDB⁠
  • NoSQL: MongoDB⁠, ElasticSearch⁠, CouchDB⁠/PouchDB⁠
  • SQL: PostgreSQL⁠, CockroachDB⁠, MySQL⁠, SQLite⁠
  • In-memory, ephemeral
• Modular design; easy to extend with new languages and backends
• Good test coverage
• Speed, where possible.

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

⁠Documentation

• See the docs folder⁠ for v0.7 docs.