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What's the best way to load Freebase in 2017? Cayley with Postgres storage? Or some other RDF/graph DB? Or ElasticSearch? Or dump it in Postgres/MySQL? I am not interested in complex queries, but simple queries that execute reasonable fast.

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We have it loaded on a Dgraph instance. In case you want to play around with it at https://play.dgraph.io

The movie subset, or the whole Freebase?

The Freebase Film Data has only 21M facts. Freebase 1.9 billion facts.

This is just the film data.

I would be interested if Dgraph can handle the full Freebase dataset. (250 GB RDF)

How long does it load? What's the avg query response for very simple searches (like who is the US president)?

(Dgraph author) That's a good point. I think I'll load one instance up with the entire Freebase data, run it on freebase.dgraph.io, and blog about how and whys etc. Expect that in the next couple of weeks.

How is Dgraph licensed? I see both Apache and AGPL in GitHub.

Dgraph follows MongoDB licensing. The clients are all in Apache, and the server code is AGPL. This doesn't affect anyone using Dgraph for commercial purposes; but if they make changes to the server code, they'll have to release them under AGPL. Blog post here: https://open.dgraph.io/post/licensing/

Looking at the commit, they switched from asl to agpl.

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