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}
}