Its last version was released in May 2011. sones GmbH, which was based in Erfurt and Leipzig, was declared bankrupt on January 1, 2012.

GraphDB was developed in the programming language C# and ran on Microsoft's .NET Framework and on the open source reimplementation Mono.

Structured data could be dynamically extended with high performance in nodes and edges during runtime.

Additional properties could easily be entered or deleted from vertex types in a short amount of time.

In addition to providing a number of interfaces (e.g., Java, C#, WebShell, WebDAV) the sones graph database also offers a REST API.

The GraphFS serializes and deserializes database objects (nodes and edges) and operates the available storage engines.