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Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 6 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-03-04 · latest 2026-06-01

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  1. …the easiest way to get coding agents to figure out AGE is actually their regressions SQL tests: https://github.com/apache/age/tree/master/regress/sql This has a lot of examples for the agent to know what will/won't work with AGE versus…
    comment by CharlieDigital · 2026-06-01 · in Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)
  2. I believe AGE has unfortunately been defunded: https://github.com/apache/age/discussions/2150 It’s a shame because it seemed like being able to query data across multiple paradigms would be really useful
    comment by dgllghr · 2025-04-27 · in How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph
  3. We are also open Source community at Apache https://github.com/apache/age
    comment by shubham_y · 2023-09-28 · in Open Source does not win by being cheaper
  4. Also see Apache Age, a graph database extension for Postgres: https://github.com/apache/age
    comment by dapearce · 2023-03-31 · in Postgres as a graph database
  5. …due to how things are stored and queried. Would be great to have a graph db plugin (and I found one https://github.com/apache/age )
    comment by yooloo · 2023-03-31 · in Postgres as a graph database
  6. Don't know about SQLite, https://github.com/apache/age seems very interesting, but it's just a tiny layer on top of Postgres :)
    comment by mbuda · 2023-01-30 · in PageRank algorithm for graph databases
  7. Apache AGE is a Postgres extension, and is the closest thing to what you've described that I know of. https://github.com/apache/age
    comment by jasfi · 2023-01-29 · in Features I'd Like in PostgreSQL
  8. …be left alone, yet not important enough to form a second type of mass market database engine". [0] https://github.com/apache/age
    comment by college_physics · 2023-01-13 · in Bullshit graph database performance benchmarks
  9. If you're referencing this: https://github.com/apache/incubator-age Then I honestly think it's pretty good. Maybe two changes would be: - Maybe embed one or two use comparisons of some search in plain SQL, and something using age to show…
    comment by icegreentea2 · 2021-03-22 · in Ask HN: How do I improve boring README page?
  10. https://github.com/apache/incubator-age is the repository in question.
    comment by flymetothemoon · 2021-03-22 · in Ask HN: How do I improve boring README page?
  11. I like to research meaningless things, so looked at the first commit in each repository: - https://github.com/apache/incubator-age/commit/bef50e5d86d45... (Mar 19, 2019) - https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/commit/06cbe4f91ea9843069...…
    comment by rzzzt · 2021-03-04 · in Apache Age: A Graph Extension for PostgreSQL