NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition is now officially available, providing a dedicated environment for application development, debugging, testing, and learning. Built on the NebulaGraph Enterprise 5.x technology foundation and designed specifically for development use, it gives Enterprise users a way to validate their applications before production deployment and allows users who have not yet adopted NebulaGraph Enterprise to explore its basic capabilities and GQL query language. The Developer Edition is not a trial version or a production-ready edition of NebulaGraph Enterprise, and it does not support production deployment.

What Is the NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition?

The NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition is a dedicated development and testing environment built on the NebulaGraph Enterprise 5.x technology foundation, with a restricted deployment scope. It is designed to address two practical needs: making development and validation easier for Enterprise users, and providing a way for new users to experience the basic capabilities of NebulaGraph Database and GQL.

For existing Enterprise users, the Developer Edition provides an environment for:

• Application development and debugging

• Feature and query testing

• Identifying and resolving issues before production deployment

• Integrating NebulaGraph into development and CI/CD workflows

By bringing more development and testing activities into a dedicated environment, teams can discover potential issues earlier and reduce the risks associated with moving applications directly into production.

Who Is the NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition For?

The Developer Edition is primarily designed for two groups of users.

Existing NebulaGraph Enterprise Users

Enterprise teams can use the Developer Edition as part of their development lifecycle. Developers can build applications, test queries, and debug integrations before deploying them to a production Enterprise environment.

It can also be incorporated into CI/CD workflows, helping development teams establish a more consistent environment for automated testing and application validation.

Users Exploring NebulaGraph Enterprise

For users who are interested in NebulaGraph Enterprise, the Developer Edition provides an opportunity to experience the basic Enterprise functionality and become familiar with GQL, the query language used by NebulaGraph Enterprise Edition.

It is particularly useful for testing basic graph applications and understanding how NebulaGraph can fit into an application architecture.

If you need to evaluate performance, reliability, high availability, or scalability for your specific workloads, contact our team to request an Enterprise Edition trial. Our team can help you assess whether NebulaGraph Enterprise meets your technical and business requirements before production deployment.

Key Features and Limitations

NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition is designed for development and testing rather than high availability, large-scale data processing, or production workloads. The Developer Edition runs on one host with one replica per partition. Each instance can store up to 1 GB of data.

Key characteristics include:

The Developer Edition does not provide high availability, data sharding, multiple replicas, cluster synchronization, or large-scale deployment capabilities. It should not be used for production environments or production workloads.

Use Cases

NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition is intended to support development activities throughout the application lifecycle.

• Learn Graph Data Modeling

Learn how to model connected data by defining graph structures and using nodes and edges to represent entities and their relationships. The Developer Edition provides an environment to explore graph modeling concepts and experiment with how data relationships can be represented in a graph.

• Application Development

Developers can use the NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition to build and test applications that interact with NebulaGraph, including graph-based applications and workloads using GQL.

• Query Development and Debugging

Development teams can write, test, and refine GQL queries in a controlled environment before deploying them to a production cluster.

• CI/CD Integration

The Developer Edition addresses a common requirement from enterprise development teams: having a dedicated NebulaGraph environment that can be incorporated into CI/CD pipelines for development and automated testing.

Conclusion

The NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition provides developers and organizations with a dedicated environment for building, testing, debugging, and developing graph applications based on NebulaGraph Enterprise 5.x.

NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition helps teams identify issues before production and gives new users an accessible way to explore NebulaGraph Enterprise 5.x and GQL. At the same time, the Developer Edition is intentionally limited in scale and availability. It is a development tool, not a trial version or a production-ready replacement for NebulaGraph Enterprise.

Get Started

• Explore and Download NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition

• Read NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition Documentation

• Interested in deploying NebulaGraph in a production environment? Contact us to learn more about NebulaGraph Enterprise.

FAQs

Is NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition the same as the open-source version?

No. The Developer Edition is built on the technology foundation of Enterprise 5.x and uses GQL as its query language. The open-source edition follows the v3.x release line and uses nGQL as the query language.

Is the Developer Edition a trial version of NebulaGraph Enterprise?

No. Although the Developer Edition is built on the technology foundation of Enterprise 5.x, it is specifically designed for development and testing. It does not include Enterprise capabilities such as high availability, large-scale expansion, multiple replicas, cluster synchronization, or enterprise technical support. It is not supported for production use.

Do I need a license to use NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition?

Before using the Developer Edition, you must agree to the NebulaGraph Enterprise Developer License Agreement. No license key is required.