KuzuDB is a professional take on a graph database engine. Also embeddable so sort of like SQLite for graph and vector data.
Unfortunately, the company behind the open source project, up and pulled stakes according to The Register. One of the more annoying possible outcomes of a VC backed project (c.f. Marimo).
The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kùzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative.
A few days ago, the GitHub project was archived and a note appeared stating that “Kuzu is working on something new.” In addition, the documentation and blog post archive were moved from the Kuzu website to GitHub.
Since the project was developed with a generous open source license, forking was quite an eminent possibility. Enter LadybugDB:
LadybugDB is a modern graph database designed with a primary focus on object storage. Unlike traditional databases that treat storage as an afterthought, LadybugDB places object storage at the core of its architecture, enabling efficient management of complex, interconnected data structures while maintaining the flexibility and scalability that modern applications demand.
Built on top of KuzuDB, LadybugDB inherits a robust and modular implementation of cypher. KuzuDB was previously developed by Kùzu Inc.
Here’s the repo. The emphasis on object storage takes it in a bit of a different direction though. Now moving into DuckDB territory.
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