Dgraph vs Memgraph
Dgraph
dgraph.ioMemgraph
memgraph.comSide by side
| Figure | Dgraph | Memgraph |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 7 |
| Spec score · Graph Databases | 7.8 (#18) | 8.6 (#6) |
| Spec score · NoSQL Databases | 7.6 (#23) | 8.4 (#11) |
| Client libraries | The documentation lists client libraries for Go, Python, Java, C#, and JavaScript, plus direct gRPC and HTTP access. | Official documentation lists clients or guides for C#, C/C++, Go, GraphQL, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust and Swift. |
| Company history | The Dgraph overview states that Dgraph Labs was acquired by Hypermode. | Memgraph’s about page says its founders celebrated the company’s sixth year in 2022. |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Product | Dgraph is a graph database commonly used to build knowledge graphs and real-time applications. | Memgraph is an in-memory graph database and platform focused on graph computations on streaming data. |
| Query language | DQL supports graph queries, mutations, filtering, indexes, and reverse relationship traversals. | Memgraph supports the Cypher query language. |
| Support | The quickstart directs users to the Hypermode Discord for questions, issues, feature requests, and discussions. | Community Edition lists Discord support; Enterprise includes direct engineering support through a dedicated Slack channel. |
| Transactions | Dgraph transactions commit all changes as a unit or abort them when conflicts occur. | Community Edition includes ACID transactions with on-disk persistence and high-availability replication. |
| Use cases | Dgraph is described as being most commonly used to build knowledge graphs. | The company describes enterprise uses including AI infrastructure, GraphRAG, AI memory, fraud detection, network analysis, supply chain dependencies, and infrastructure monitoring. |
Plans
Memgraph
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise trialFree
- Memgraph CloudFree
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
- Enterprise Edition — AI PlatformPriced on request
- Enterprise Edition — Graph AnalyticsPriced on request
- OEM / SaaS licencePriced on request
In their own words
Memgraph
Memgraph is an in-memory graph database platform for graph computations on streaming data. It supports Cypher and lists Kafka, Pulsar, and Redpanda as streaming connectors. Its free Community Edition includes ACID transactions, on-disk persistence, high-availability replication, and vector search. MAGE adds more than 60 graph algorithms, with integrations for NetworkX, igraph, and cuGraph. Memgraph Lab provides a visual interface for querying, managing, importing, and visualizing graph data; it also supports natural-language queries through GraphChat. Programmatic drivers are listed for Python, C/C++, Rust, Node.js, C#, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Enterprise features include role- and label-based access controls, SSO, LDAP/PAM authentication, TLS encryption in transit, audit logging, failover, replication, disaster recovery, no-downtime updates, and monitoring. Community support is available through Discord; Enterprise includes direct engineering support through a dedicated Slack channel. Memgraph Cloud is managed and hosted on AWS in six regions, with instances from 1 GB to 32 GB RAM. Community Edition is free forever. Enterprise plans have unlisted prices that scale by memory capacity or graph data capacity, depending on the edition, and the Enterprise trial lasts 30 days.