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Drivine

Drivine

Docs: drivine.org, for TypeScript, Python, and Kotlin & Java.

Drivine is a graph database client for Node.js and TypeScript, with a NestJS module, and no need for one: see Without Nest. It supports Neo4j, Memgraph, FalkorDB, Oracle (SQL/PGQ) and Postgres as graph stores, plus Amazon Neptune through the low-level API. It gives you two ways to work with a graph:

  1. PersistenceManager: a low-level API where you write the queries yourself. This is the classic Drivine approach.
  2. Object manager (StatelessGraphObjectManager): a high-level API that maps decorated classes, with a typed query DSL whose references come from the classes themselves.

A Cypher statement runs on every store, the SQL ones too: on Postgres, Oracle and SQLite, Drivine compiles it to SQL. See Cypher on a relational database.

On Python or the JVM? drivine-python (pip install drivine) is Drivine’s Python twin, async first with a sync API. drivine4j (org.drivine:drivine4j) is its Java and Kotlin twin, the graph client for Embabel, with Spring Boot support and a code-generated DSL. The three share a storage format: a store written from any of them is read, stamped and checked alike by the others.

Its design goals:

  • Support multiple graph databases, simultaneously if you wish.
  • Scale to hundreds and thousands of transactions per second, without compromising architectural integrity.