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Prometheus vs oxigraph
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars, 10,969 forks, 890 open issues and last shipped yesterday. oxigraph has 2,021 stars, 190 forks, 149 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Prometheus leads on adoption by 3,211% (66,906 vs 2,021 stars). Prometheus is written in Go under Apache-2.0; oxigraph is written in Rust under Apache-2.0. Prometheus has attracted 16% as many forks as stars, oxigraph 9%. Prometheus was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Prometheus | oxigraph | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 67K | ★ 2.0K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Go | Rust |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 11K | ⑂ 190 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Prometheus if
- You weight community size — 67K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick oxigraph if
- You want the oxigraph feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Rust
- You evaluated both and oxigraph fits your workflow better
About Prometheus
Prometheus Visit prometheus.io for the full documentation, examples and guides. [ ][quay] [ ][hub] Prometheus, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts when specified conditions are observed. The features that distinguish Prometheus from other metrics and monitoring systems are: A multi dimensional data model (time series defined by metric name and set of key/value dimensions) PromQL, a powerful and flexible query language to…
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About oxigraph
Oxigraph Oxigraph is both a graph database and a RDF and SPARQL toolkit. Its goal is to provide a compliant, safe, and fast graph database based on the RocksDB key value store. It also provides a set of utilities for RDF basic manipulation (parsing, serialization, canonicalization) and building SPARQL implementations (SPARQL results parsers/serializers, SPARQL parser...). Oxigraph is in heavy development and SPARQL query evaluation has not been optimized yet. Oxigraph internal design is described on the wiki. Oxigraph implements the following specifications: SPARQL Query, SPARQL Update, and SPARQL Federated…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Prometheus or oxigraph more popular?
Prometheus has 66,906 GitHub stars and oxigraph has 2,021. Prometheus has the larger community by that measure.
Are Prometheus and oxigraph free?
Both are open source. Prometheus is licensed under Apache-2.0 and oxigraph under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Prometheus and oxigraph?
Prometheus is written in Go and oxigraph in Rust. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Prometheus or oxigraph?
Choose Prometheus if you want the larger community (66,906 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose oxigraph if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.