Becoming a Member

Benefits

The benefits of LDBC membership are:

  • Access to the internal LDBC information via its project management system and mailing lists, which include access to discussion documents, datasets, and draft benchmark specifications.
  • Access to research resources at academic partners and connections to industry members.
  • Right to membership of LDBC task forces and working groups. Currently, there are task forces on the Social Network Benchmark, Graphalytics, and FinBench, and working groups on graph schemas and query languages.
  • Right to commission LDBC audits to produce official LDBC benchmark results.

Note: Apart from conformance to membership agreement, including the Byelaws and the Fair Use Policy, becoming an LDBC member does not involve any further obligations. Members are not required to attend meetings, travel to events, or be involved in any task forces/working groups.

Annual membership fees

As of 2025, LDBC has the following membership fees (excluding VAT):

Category Membership fee
Very large company (≥ 10,000 employees) 15,000 GBP
Large company (≥ 1,000 employees) 8,000 GBP
Medium company (≥ 100 employees) 5,000 GBP
Small company (< 100 employees) 2,500 GBP
Not for profit organization 1,100 GBP
Individual voting member 165 GBP
Individual associate member no subscription fee

Auditing fee

Audits can be commissioned for a 3,000 GBP auditing fee, to be paid for each audit to LDBC. (Note: A single audit must use the same system and implementation but can involve multiple scale factors.)

Forms

For the latest information on becoming an LDBC member, see the LDBC Membership – Joining and Renewing 2023 document.

Please fill out this form if you are an organization or individual applying to join LDBC:

Fill out one of these forms if you are just contributing to a project in the LDBC GitHub organization.

In either case please email your completed form to [email protected]

Constitutional documents

See the constitutional documents page.