NebulaGraph Database Developer Edition documentation

Developer Edition is a single-host graph database for learning and application development. It supports Docker Compose deployment and includes the movie sample dataset.

Follow the quick start

Getting started

Understand Developer Edition

Learn when to use Developer Edition, how graph data is organized, and which limits apply.

• Developer Edition overview
• Graph data concepts
• Capabilities and limits

Learn GQL

Start with your first query, then learn to create graphs and insert, update, and delete data.

• Connect and run your first query
• Create a graph and run CRUD operations
• GQL reference

Build an application

Use the Python SDK or REST API to build an application that looks up a movie's cast.

• Application tutorials
• Build a service with the Python SDK
• Build a service with the REST API

Limits

Each Developer Edition instance is limited to 1 GB of data. Use Enterprise Edition for testing with large datasets or for performance tests. See Capabilities and limits for other deployment restrictions.