krotik/eliasdb repository overview

EliasDB is a graph-based database which aims to provide a lightweight solution for projects which want to store their data as a graph.

Read further on the project page⁠.

⁠Features

• Build on top of a custom key-value store which supports transactions and memory-only storage.
• Data is stored in nodes (key-value objects) which are connected via edges.
• Stored graphs can be separated via partitions.
• Stored graphs support cascading deletions - delete one node and all its "children".
• All stored data is indexed and can be quickly searched via a full text phrase search.
• EliasDB has a GraphQL interface which can be used to store and retrieve data.
• For more complex queries EliasDB has an own query language called EQL with an sql-like syntax.
• Written in Go from scratch. Only uses gorilla/websocket to support websockets for GraphQL subscriptions.
• The database can be embedded or used as a standalone application.
• When used as a standalone application it comes with an internal HTTPS webserver which provides user management, a REST API and a basic file server.
• When used as an embedded database it supports transactions with rollbacks, iteration of data and rule based consistency management.

⁠Getting Started

You can pull the latest docker image of EliasDB from this repository:

docker pull krotik/eliasdb

Create an empty directory, change into it and run the following to start the server:

docker run --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $PWD:/data -p 9090:9090 krotik/eliasdb server

This exposes port 9090 from the container on the local machine. All runtime related files are written to the current directory as the current user/group.

Connect to the running server with a console by running:

docker run --rm --network="host" -it -v $PWD:/data --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $PWD:/data krotik/eliasdb console