terminusdb/terminusdb
TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
93/100
- Activity 97
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 47
- age_days: 2598
- days_rel: 23
- days_push: 23
- n_releases_24m: 12
Adoption not part of the score
3394 stars · 150 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
TerminusDB is an open-source document graph database with built-in git-like version control, storing JSON/JSON-LD documents in a schema-enforced knowledge graph. It supports branching, diffing, merging, cloning, time-travel queries, and querying via a REST document API, GraphQL, or the WOQL datalog query language.
Use cases
- version control for JSON data with branch, diff, and merge
- build and query a knowledge graph from JSON documents
- time-travel queries against historical database states
- auditable data lineage for regulated industries
- collaborative data products with push/pull/clone workflows
- headless CMS with schema-enforced structured content
- complex graph queries without SQL joins using WOQL or GraphQL
When to choose
- you need immutable history, branching, and merging for structured data
- you want document-store ergonomics combined with graph traversal
- you need auditable, ACID-compliant changes for compliance-heavy domains
- you want a closed-world RDF knowledge graph with a JSON document API
When to avoid
- you need a simple key-value or wide-column store at massive scale
- your team depends on a large ecosystem of standard SQL tooling
- you want a fully managed hosted database without self-hosting
- you need mature third-party integrations comparable to mainstream databases
Facets
service · maturity active
database search-engine graphql http-server version-control serialization databases developer-tools apis cms windows self-hosted cross-platform graph-database knowledge-graph git-for-data -ld document-database rdf woql time-travel branching immutable-history nosql headless-cms datalog search data-engineering linux macos docker web-server
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb · fetched 2026-08-28 · 791db7e4d6c0
- homepage: https://terminusdb.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6784024fa694
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/topics · fetched 2026-08-29 · 483bb02979b7
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/start-here · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0f9c038a41d4
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/whats-new · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2250dd5327b3
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/get-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · aec9ed0d727a
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/unification-of-variables-in-datalog · fetched 2026-08-29 · b26eb163b5c1
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/terminusdb-explanation · fetched 2026-08-29 · c37591c95a59
- site_page: https://terminusdb.org/docs/documents-explanation · fetched 2026-08-29 · dcad18b18cd4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| terminusdb/terminusdb | main | 93 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="terminusdb/terminusdb")
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