Dgraph
Vector indexing on any node. Google Gen AI Toolbox integration; LangChain agent orchestration.
At a glance
- Type
- Graph + vector + Hypermode cloud
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Knowledge-graph platforms
- Created
- 2015
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- searched not found
- Funding
- acquired · 2023-11
Taxonomy
- storage
- graph
- retrieval
- graph-traversal
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- overwrite
- unit
- fact
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- overwrite
When to use
Optimised for: relationship modeling + reasoning + governance over pure vector
Anti-fit: not for purely-vector or simple-RAG use cases (graph adds setup cost)
Pros & cons
Pros
Distributed-by-design graph DB with native GraphQL; strong for high-scale connected data.
Cons
Smaller mind-share than Neo4j; commercial focus has shifted over time.
Claims & capabilities
Powers product-recommendation knowledge graphs with LLM tool-call annotations.
Technical surface
- API surface
- GraphQL, gRPC, REST, SDK: Go, JS, Python, Java
- Backend storage
- custom (Badger LSM-backed)
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted OSS + Hypermode Cloud until Oct 2025 acquisition by Istari)
- Embedding model
- BYO
- Multi-tenancy
- namespace
- MCP
- no first-party MCP adapter published as of 2026-05; community connectors may exist.
- A2A
- no Google A2A (Agent2Agent) integration documented as of 2026-05.
- OpenTelemetry
- first-class — OpenCensus / OTel
Similar systems
Other knowledge-graph platforms in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
- Neo4j T1
Property graph DB with Cypher; native vector search; Aura Agent + MCP server for graph-as-memory. $100M GenAI investment in 2025.
- Amazon Neptune Analytics T1
Vector index on graph nodes queryable via openCypher. Mem0 integration GA 2025; Cognee integration for agentic RAG. Combines semantic recall with multi-hop traversal in one managed service.
- AllegroGraph (Franz) T1
RDF triple/quad store with RDFS++ / OWL reasoning. v8.4 (May 2025) added an NLQ interface.
- Apache AGE T2
openCypher over Postgres. Pairs with pgvector for graph + vector hybrid retrieval. Azure Database for PostgreSQL ships AGE with ai_extension LLM functions for entity extraction directly in SQL.
- ArangoDB T1
HybridGraphRAG combines vector search, graph traversal, full-text in one AQL query. ArangoGraphML for ML pipelines; LangChain integration.
- Diffbot T1
Auto-built knowledge graph from web crawl. 1T+ facts, 10B+ entities. GraphRAG-fine-tuned model based on open-source Llama 3.3.
Related systems
References (1)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — Google Gen AI Toolbox integration; LangChain agent orchestration.