--- title: Dgraph Reviews meta\_title: 'Dgraph Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 22 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Dgraph works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 22 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Dgraph Reviews & Product Details Dgraph is the world's most advanced GraphQL database with a graph backend. The number one graph database on GitHub and over 500,000 downloads every month, Dgraph is built for performance and scalability. Jepsen tested, it has the best performance, returning millisecond query responses on terabytes of data. Dgraph is ideal for a range of use cases, from customer 360 and fraud detection to complicated queries with multi-hops and arbitrary-depth joins. Strong performance and memory management make the graph database ideal for enterprises while Dgraph Cloud makes it quick and easy for app developers to launch a project over the weekend. Scale from zero to billions of records effortlessly. Available in open source and hosted versions (Dgraph Cloud) and enterprise license. * * * Seller [Dgraph Labs](https://www.g2.com/sellers/dgraph-labs) Discussions [Dgraph Community](https://www.g2.com/products/dgraph/discuss) Overview by Matt Tanner Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Dgraph. ### Dgraph Cloud Shared Tier $39.99 per backend per month ### Dgraph Cloud Dedicated Tier $199 per month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/dgraph/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Neo4j Graph Database](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Neo4j Graph Database") Neo4j Graph Database 4.5/5(133) ](https://www.g2.com/products/neo4j-graph-database/reviews) [ ![Arango](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arango") Arango 4.6/5(115) ](https://www.g2.com/products/arango/reviews) [ ![OrientDB](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "OrientDB") OrientDB 3.9/5(60) ](https://www.g2.com/products/orientdb/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/dgraph/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 22 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Tom H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tom H.") TH Tom H. Principal Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/21/2022 "Dgraph is great" 4/5 What do you like best about Dgraph? Scalability is built straight into the dgraph. It is a graph database and comes with GraphQL straight out of the box. The Graphql web UI makes it easy to parse the schema and built out your queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dgraph? There was one but with Ids being sorted in an apollo federated environment, we were getting weird results which freaked us out for a day. There was a bug fix that came along via the community which was great to see, but it was scary to have the database return ids not sorted correctly for a week or so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dgraph: A great graph database with HA out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dgraph solving and how is that benefiting you? I work with a standards-based schema that has a lot of recursion in the types definitions, dgraph and graphql make it easy to create graphql fragments to drill down as far as the relationship goes which is awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![aditya g.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "aditya g.") AG aditya g. Senior Software Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/24/2021 "review on Dgrpah" 4/5 What do you like best about Dgraph? I like high hop query performance with optimal indexing and schema. One hop query is equivalent to fetching all connected edges of a node. A two-hop query is equivalent to fetching all connected nodes of the result of the one-hop query. We are able to store a very complex data of addresses. The data is unbounded in nature and Dgraph has been tested on 2X size of current data. There is one other thing to highlight, which is query on reverse edge. These queries are very fast compared to other databases with same indexing and schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dgraph? Dgraph requires high RAM to store a graph compare to other graph offerings. The managed offering dosen't provide all functionality which are possible using own kubernates cluster. The management has to be done by yourself or the devops team of the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dgraph: I would recommend Dgraph if you can manage it yourself and have a huge data size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dgraph solving and how is that benefiting you? We are storing a vast database of addresses in India and querying the same for new addresses. It is helping us to fetch data for nearby addresses based on the historical data available. The benifits include query performance: Based on response time of same query on different databases with same data and schema. scaling: Self managed kubernates cluster is easy to scale and it takes care of data being replicated from old nodes and new nodes. loading time of data: The bulk load is way faster in nature to load one time complete data. Live load can be used to add incremental data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") AC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/21/2021 "Pleasantly surprised new DGraph user" 4/5 What do you like best about Dgraph? The favorable third-party analysis from Jepsen inspires trust and confidence that we made a good choice relying on DGraph. The documentation is also excellent. We haven't tested DGraph at scale yet, but so far our development experience has been pleasant. Indications are that DGraph will scale to meet our needs, and we're very optimistic at this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dgraph? We've noticed that string data seems to take up a ton of space on disk. We're expecting to store quite a lot of data in DGraph and better compression efficiency would help us tremendously. More coherent operational tooling would also help. While the deployment story is very nice and simple (docker swarm) we find ourselves writing our own tooling around things like creating/restoring from backups and other cluster management tasks. DGraph provides example scripts for this sort of thing, but having operational tooling unified in a control plane application (e.g. a CLI tool) would reduce our adoption burden a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dgraph solving and how is that benefiting you? We're building a graph-based DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) tool. DGraph allows us to execute structural queries to identify interesting patterns in our data. Our product provides real-time incident detection and allows analysts to perform post-detection investigations. Our product's success depends on enabling users to express graph queries. One benefit in particular is DGraph's GraphQL support. This allows us to express structural queries elegantly and intelligibly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Zoe Hawkins of Dgraph [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/dgraph-review-4565504/official_response/edit) Glad that you're enjoying Dgraph so far! It sounds like you're using our open source version, which is definitely robust enough to handle your use case. However, based on the things you're not liking, it might be worthwhile for you to check out the fully-managed solutions we offer - either Slash GraphQL or Dgraph Cloud. You can compare them and see which one is right for you. [See how Dgraph improved](https://dgraph.io/pricing) Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/21/2021 "Best Graph database for all your graph based apps" 4/5 What do you like best about Dgraph? I have been working on this for 2 years and really amazing the performance. And Dgraph Engineering support is very promising and fixed the issues on time on a priority basis (applicable for Enterprise support). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Dgraph? Documentation, release notes, recommendations needs to be updated as per releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Dgraph: Definitely, I recommend Dgraph for graph-based applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Dgraph solving and how is that benefiting you? Relationship between the entities. It solved many problems during data handling at our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about Dgraph? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Dgraph ](https://www.g2.com/products/dgraph/discussions/new) ![SHARDUL A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SHARDUL A.") SA SHARDUL AEER • Last activity over 4 years ago Will DGraph support Cipher or Gremlin in future? 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36341-will-dgraph-support-cipher-or-gremlin-in-future) ![Jason T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jason T.") 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