Apache AGE
Shares rank 13 of 14 Postgres extensions by recommenders
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.
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.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Postgres reliability with a fluent query language
“Apache AGE seems like a good way to have the battle testedness of Postgres with a more fluent query language.”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database” Open-source graph option, production-ready
“they're all production ready and either backed by a vendor or open-source”
Comment from 21 Mar 2026 in “Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Poor performance on traversal queries
“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”
Comment from 1 Jun 2026 in “Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)” “AGE is very immature and optimized even simple traversal queries rather poorly”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database” Unclear production use and low activity
“it seemed like the project wasn't very active and I couldn't find any information about folks using it at scale in production”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database” Many edge cases fail to work
“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”
Comment from 1 Jun 2026 in “Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)”
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The four most recommended other Postgres extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 14 Postgres extensions, rankedWhat people said
5 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“AGE is very immature and optimized even simple traversal queries rather poorly”
“it seemed like the project wasn't very active and I couldn't find any information about folks using it at scale in production”
“Apache AGE seems like a good way to have the battle testedness of Postgres with a more fluent query language.”
“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”
“they're all production ready and either backed by a vendor or open-source”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.