Janusgraph

JanusGraph is a highly scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying large graphs with billions of vertices and edges distributed across a multi-machine cluster. JanusGraph is a transactional database that can support thousands of concurrent users, complex traversals, and analytic graph queries.

#Learn More

The project homepage contains more information on JanusGraph and provides links to documentation, getting-started guides and release downloads.

#Visualization

JanusGraph has a web-based graph visualizer located in janusgraph-visualizer repository.

In additional to the web-based graph visualizer, JanusGraph supports a range of third party graph visualizers listed below:

• Arcade Analytics
• Cytoscape
• Gephi plugin for Apache TinkerPop
• Graphexp
• Graph Explorer
• Graphlytic
• Gremlin-Visualizer - the original repository on which JanusGraph-Visualizer is based on.
• G.V() - Gremlin IDE
• KeyLines by Cambridge Intelligence
• Ogma by Linkurious
• ReGraph by Cambridge Intelligence
• Tom Sawyer Perspectives

#Community

• GitHub Discussions: see GitHub Discussions for all general discussions and questions about JanusGraph

• Discord for interactive discussions and questions about JanusGraph: Join the server

• Stack Overflow: see the janusgraph tag

• Twitter: follow @JanusGraph for news and updates

• LinkedIn: follow JanusGraph for news and updates

• Mailing lists:

  • janusgraph-users (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation (archives) for questions about using JanusGraph, installation, configuration, integrations

    To join with a LF AI & Data account, use the web UI; to subscribe/unsubscribe with an arbitrary email address, send an email to:

    • janusgraph-users+subscribe (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation
    • janusgraph-users+unsubscribe (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation

  • janusgraph-dev (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation (archives) for internal implementation of JanusGraph itself

    To join with a LF AI & Data account, use the web UI; to subscribe/unsubscribe with an arbitrary email address, send an email to:

    • janusgraph-dev+subscribe (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation
    • janusgraph-dev+unsubscribe (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation

  • janusgraph-announce (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation (archives) for new releases and news announcements

    To join with a LF AI & Data account, use the web UI; to subscribe/unsubscribe with an arbitrary email address, send an email to:

    • janusgraph-announce+subscribe (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation
    • janusgraph-announce+unsubscribe (at) lists.lfaidata.foundation

#Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information, including CLAs and best practices for working with GitHub.

#Powered by JanusGraph

• Apache Atlas - metadata management for governance (website)
• Eclipse Keti - access control service to protect RESTful APIs (website)
• Exakat - PHP static analysis (website)
• Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) - automation and orchestration for Software-Defined Networks

• Uber Knowledge Graph (event info)
• Express-Cassandra - Cassandra ORM/ODM/OGM for Node.js with optional support for Elassandra & JanusGraph

• Windup by RedHat - application migration and assessment tool (website)

#Users

The following users have deployed JanusGraph in production.

• Airbnb - blog post
• CELUM
• Crédit Agricole CIB - use case
• eBay - video
• FiNC
• G DATA - blog post series about malware analysis use case
• Mapped
• Netflix - video and slides (graph discussion starts at #86)
• Qihoo 360 (about)
• Red Hat - application migration and assessment tool built on Windup
• Times Internet
• Uber

#Cite

If you use JanusGraph in your research, please cite it using this metadata:

@software{janusgraph_2024,
    title = {JanusGraph: an open-source, distributed graph database},
    author = {{JanusGraph Contributors}},
    year = {2024},
    version = {1.1.0},
    publisher = {Zenodo},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14807604}
}