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HyperGraphDB vs LadybugDB

HyperGraphDB

hypergraphdb.org

LadybugDB

ladybugdb.com

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FigureHyperGraphDBLadybugDB
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
Web—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published01
Spec score · Graph Databases7.3 (#29)8.2 (#11)
LicenseThe project’s GitHub page identifies its license as Apache-2.0.All source code and precompiled binaries are distributed under the MIT License.
ProductHyperGraphDB is an embedded, transactional graph database based on generalized hypergraphs.Ladybug is an embedded graph database optimized for complex analytical workloads on very large graphs.
SupportThe official site links to a Community page and a Questions & Answers page.The site lists community support and says commercial enterprise support contracts are available.

Plans

HyperGraphDB

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LadybugDB

  • MIT open-source licenseFree

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In their own words

HyperGraphDB

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LadybugDB

LadybugDB is an embedded columnar graph database for analytical workloads and agentic applications. It uses Cypher with a structured property graph model and can run on disk or in memory; in-memory data is lost when the process ends. Its query engine uses columnar disk storage, vectorized and factorized processing, multi-core parallelism, and join algorithms. Transactions are atomic, durable, and serializable. The project distributes source code and precompiled binaries under the MIT License, which permits commercial and proprietary applications. Imports support Parquet, CSV, JSON, NumPy, Pandas or Polars DataFrames, and PyArrow Tables. Official client APIs are listed for Python, Node.js, Java, Rust, Go, Swift, C, and C++, alongside a command-line interface. Ladybug Explorer provides a browser-based way to query and visualize a database, and the MCP Server exposes a database to LLMs and agents. Extensions cover sources and systems including Azure storage, Delta Lake, DuckDB, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, and vector similarity search. Concurrent access permits one read-write Database object or multiple read-only objects; multiple processes needing writes should use an API server pattern.

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