NopalDB 🌵
High-performance embedded graph database for Python, written in Rust: ACID transactions, MVCC time-travel, a Cypher-like query language (NQL), vector search, and zero-copy Apache Arrow export for ML pipelines.
Runs in-process — no server to deploy. One pip install, one file on disk.
Install
pip install nopaldb
Prebuilt wheels for Linux (x86_64/aarch64), macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon) and Windows, for CPython 3.10+ (abi3: one wheel per platform covers all versions).
What the wheel contains
These wheels are built with the sled storage backend only. That is what
Graph.open(...) uses, and it is the backend the project supports for
production use.
The engine is selectable in the API — Graph.open_with_options(path, engine=...) — but engine="redb" raises ValueError on a wheel from PyPI,
because that backend is not compiled in. redb is experimental: it exists
behind a Cargo feature, is not enabled by default, and is still being
qualified against the crash-recovery suite. To try it you must build from
source:
pip install maturin
git clone https://github.com/sharop/nopaldb && cd nopaldb
maturin build --release --features python-full,storage-redb -m nopaldb/Cargo.toml
Treat such a build as an experiment, not as a supported configuration. The wheels on PyPI will ship redb once it clears its qualification gate.
Quickstart
import nopaldb
graph = nopaldb.Graph.open("./data.db")
# ACID transactions
tx = graph.begin_transaction()
alice = tx.add_node("Person", {"name": "Alice", "age": 30})
bob = tx.add_node("Person", {"name": "Bob", "age": 25})
tx.add_edge(alice, bob, "KNOWS")
tx.commit()
# Query with NQL
result = graph.execute_nql("""
find p.name, p.age
from (p:Person)
where p.age > 25
""")
for row in result:
print(f"{row['p.name']}: {row['p.age']}")
graph.close()
Isolation levels
tx = graph.begin_transaction(isolation="serializable")
# read_committed (default) | repeatable_read | serializable | read_uncommitted
Serializable transactions detect write conflicts and deadlocks; see the durability guarantees and isolation guide.
Arrow / ML pipelines
import pyarrow as pa
arrow_bytes = graph.to_arrow(label="Person")
batch = pa.ipc.open_stream(arrow_bytes).read_next_batch()
df = batch.to_pandas() # zero-copy into Pandas / Polars / PyTorch pipelines
Good to know
- One process per data directory (embedded file lock). Threads within the process run in parallel — the bindings release the GIL during database calls.
- Use
graph.bulk_loader(batch_size)for large ingestions. - Time-travel: MVCC version history is queryable; old versions are garbage collected on demand.
Links
- Repository & docs: https://github.com/sharop/nopaldb
- Adoption guide: https://github.com/sharop/nopaldb/blob/main/docs/ADOPTION.md
- NQL reference: https://github.com/sharop/nopaldb/blob/main/docs/en/NQL_REFERENCE.md
- Rust crate: https://crates.io/crates/nopaldb
License: MPL-2.0 (the nopaldb library — this repository in its entirety). The companion ecosystem apps (MCP server, NDBStudio) are AGPL-3.0-only and live in their own repositories: https://github.com/Anxious-Mind-Group/nopaldb-mcp · https://github.com/Anxious-Mind-Group/ndbstudio. Releases ≤ 0.4.31 were AGPL-3.0-only. NopalDB™ is a trademark of Sergio Haro Pérez.
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