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Cayley is an open-source graph inspired by the graph database behind [Freebase](http://freebase.com) and Google's [Knowledge Graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph).

Its goal is to be a part of the developer's toolbox where [Linked Data](http://linkeddata.org/) and graph-shaped data (semantic webs, social networks, etc) in general are concerned.

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## Features

* Community driven
* Written in [Go](http://golang.org)
  * can be used as a Go library
* Easy to get running (3 or 4 commands, below)
* RESTful API
  * or a REPL if you prefer
* Built-in query editor and visualizer
* Multiple query languages:
  * [Gizmo](./docs/GremlinAPI.md) - a JavaScript, with a [Gremlin](http://gremlindocs.com/)-inspired\* graph object.
  * [GraphQL](./docs/GraphQL.md)-inspired\* query language.
  * (simplified) [MQL](./docs/MQL.md), for [Freebase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase) fans
* Plays well with multiple backend stores:
  * [LevelDB](https://github.com/google/leveldb)
  * [Bolt](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt)
  * [PostgreSQL](http://www.postgresql.org)
  * [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.org) for distributed stores
  * In-memory, ephemeral
* Modular design; easy to extend with new languages and backends
* Good test coverage
* Speed, where possible.

Rough performance testing shows that, on 2014 consumer hardware and an average disk, 134m quads in LevelDB is no problem and a multi-hop intersection query -- films starring X and Y -- takes ~150ms.


## Community

* Website: [cayley.io](https://cayley.io)
* Slack: [cayleygraph.slack.com](https://cayleygraph.slack.com) -- Invite [here](https://cayley-slackin.herokuapp.com/)
* Discourse list: [discourse.cayley.io](https://discourse.cayley.io) (Also acts as mailing list, enable mailing list mode)
* Twitter: [@cayleygraph](https://twitter.com/cayleygraph)

## Documentation

* See the [docs folder](docs/)