GUN vs Memgraph
GUN
gun.ecoMemgraph
memgraph.comSide by side
| Figure | GUN | Memgraph |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 7 |
| Spec score · Graph Databases | 7.4 (#25) | 8.6 (#6) |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
| Product | GUN describes itself as an open source, decentralized graph database and data protocol for developers. | Memgraph is an in-memory graph database and platform focused on graph computations on streaming data. |
| Security | SEA provides cryptographic features including key pairs, signing, encryption, verification, and certificates for authorizing writes. | Enterprise features include role and label based access controls, SSO, LDAP/PAM authentication, TLS encryption in transit, and query audit logging. |
| Support | The tutorial directs users to the GUN chatroom for help, Stack Overflow for API questions, and GitHub Issues for bug reports. | Community Edition lists Discord support; Enterprise includes direct engineering support through a dedicated Slack channel. |
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.