# Apache AGE

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Apache AGE and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A PostgreSQL extension that adds graph queries with a more fluent query language, valued for Postgres's battle-tested base. Common caveat: critics call it immature and slow on traversals.

## Why people recommend it

- Postgres reliability with a fluent query language (1 comments): "Apache AGE seems like a good way to have the battle testedness of Postgres with a more fluent query language." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907546))
- Open-source graph option, production-ready (1 comments): "they're all production ready and either backed by a vendor or open-source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471951))

## What people warn about

- Poor performance on traversal queries (2 comments): "AGE will not get anywhere near Neo4j in terms of performance and there's a lot of edge cases that just flat out won't work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358865)) "AGE is very immature and optimized even simple traversal queries rather poorly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910028))
- Unclear production use and low activity (1 comments): "it seemed like the project wasn't very active and I couldn't find any information about folks using it at scale in production" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907631))
- Many edge cases fail to work (1 comments): "AGE will not get anywhere near Neo4j in terms of performance and there's a lot of edge cases that just flat out won't work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358865))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [pgvector](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pgvector.md): 55 recommend
- [PostGIS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/postgis.md): 20 recommend
- [pg_lake](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pg-lake.md): 18 recommend
- [ParadeDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/paradedb.md): 13 recommend
- [pg_textsearch](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pg-textsearch.md): 10 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Apache AGE", https://hackerapproved.com/p/apache-age/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).