Kùzu is an in-process property graph database management system (GDBMS) built for query speed and scalability. Kùzu is optimized for handling complex join-heavy analytical workloads on very large graph databases, with the following core feature set:
- Flexible Property Graph Data Model and Cypher query language
- Embeddable, serverless integration into applications
- Columnar disk-based storage
- Columnar sparse row-based (CSR) adjacency list/join indices
- Vectorized and factorized query processor
- Novel and very fast join algorithms
- Multi-core query parallelism
- Serializable ACID transactions
Kùzu is being actively developed at University of Waterloo as a feature-rich and usable GDBMS. Kùzu is available under a permissible license. So try it out and help us make it better! We welcome your feedback and feature requests.
Please refer to our website for installation and usage instructions.
For development, Kùzu requires Bazel, Python 3, and a compiler that supports C++20.
- Create bazel configuration file with
touch .bazelrc - Add bazel configuration
echo build --cxxopt="-std=c++2a" --cxxopt='-O3' > .bazelrc
- To do a full clean build
bazel clean --expungebazel build //...:all
- To test
bazel test //...:all
We are developing Kùzu in a publicly open github repo and encourage everyone to comment and discuss topics related to Kùzu. However we ask everyone to be very respectful and polite in discussions and avoid any hurtful language in any form. Kùzu is being developed in Canada, a land that is proud in their high standards for politeness and where a person you bumped into on the road will likely apologize to you even if it was your fault: so please be kind and respectful to everyone. If you prefer not to discuss something through open issues and discussions, you can always reach us through email.
If you are a researcher and use Kùzu in your work, we encourage you to cite our work. You can use the following BibTeX citation:
@inproceedings{kuzu:cidr,
author = {Xiyang Feng and
Guodong Jin and
Ziyi Chen and
Chang Liu and
Semih Saliho\u{g}lu},
title={K\`uzu Graph Database Management System},
booktitle={CIDR},
year={2023}
}
@misc{kuzu-github,
author = {Xiyang Feng and
Guodong Jin and
Ziyi Chen and
Chang Liu and
Semih Saliho\u{g}lu},
title = {{K\`uzu Database Management System Source Code}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu}},
month = nov,
year = 2022
}
You can contact us at contact@kuzudb.com.