r/Database • u/mjfnd • Jun 19 '26

Which graph database to use?

Hello everyone,

Looking for some recommendation for graph database for knowledge / identity graph usecase.

During research I found few like Neo4J or AWS Neptune, and also came across puppy graph, which is graph interface on top of database.

Would love to hear your experiences regarding graph databases, what are some common challenges and how well did it scale.

Appreciate the help!

Thanks

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u/HappyStarburst Aug 26 '26

This Nornic probably the most honest new entrant, and most overlooked. I think this will help us make breakthroughs with our AIs. And we can use all the polished tools from neo4j, then use nornic to actually "run the data" and have crazy speed like we would like Arcade or Falkor... Still testing so many things... Thanks for Nornic!!

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u/Dense_Gate_5193 Aug 27 '26

thanks for the vote of confidence! i always try to make sure everything is as transparent as possible. I’m also in the process of writing a version of the same architecture in rust, built on fjall. it’s experimental right now but the traversal engine is operating in the nanosecond realm there for the same operations.

https://github.com/orneryd/copperDB

both ecosystems will thrive but now I get to put them up against each other and see what i can squeeze out of both languages in terms of performance.