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Cayley vs TerminusDB

Cayley

cayley.io

TerminusDB

terminusdb.org

Side by side

FigureCayleyTerminusDB
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYesYes
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Graph Databases8.1 (#12)7.4 (#26)

Plans

Cayley

  • Open-source CayleyGraphFree

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TerminusDB

  • TerminusDB Open Source Community VersionFree

TerminusDB pricing →

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Cayley

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TerminusDB

TerminusDB is a free, open-source document graph database for JSON documents stored in a schema-enforced graph. It adds Git-like version control for data, including branching, diffing, merging, cloning, synchronization, and time travel. Commits are ACID transactions, and every write receives schema validation. Developers can use the HTTP document API, GraphQL, or WOQL, a Datalog-based query language. GraphQL works with Apollo, urql, Relay, and other clients; official libraries cover TypeScript/JavaScript and Python, with Rust documented. Role-based access control uses users, roles, capabilities, and resource scopes. Deployment documentation covers Docker, Linux or macOS source builds, and Kubernetes. DFRNT provides cloud hosting instances, while community support is available through Discord and GitHub. TerminusDB supports ontology modeling, semantic reasoning, graph visualization, and imports from CSV, JSON, JSON-LD, RDF/XML, and Turtle. It does not support RDF/SPARQL.

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