Kùzu is an embedded graph database built for query speed and scalability. Kùzu is optimized for handling complex join-heavy analytical workloads on very large 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 graph database management system (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.
| Language | Installation |
|---|---|
| Python | pip install kuzu |
| NodeJS | npm install kuzu |
| Rust | cargo add kuzu |
| Java | jar file |
| C/C++ | precompiled binaries |
| CLI | precompiled binaries |
To learn more about installation, see our Installation page.
Refer to our Getting Started page for your first example.
More information can be found at
To build from source code, Kùzu requires Cmake(>=3.11), Python 3, and a compiler that supports C++20.
- Perform a full clean build without tests and benchmark:
make clean && make release
- Perform a full clean build with tests and benchmark (optional):
make clean && make all
- Run tests (optional):
make test && make pytest
For development, use make debug to build a non-optimized debug version.
To build in parallel, pass NUM_THREADS as parameter, e.g., make NUM_THREADS=8.
After build, our CLI binary kuzu_shell is available under the directory build/release/tools/shell/.
Currently MSVC is the only supported compiler:
- In addition to the dependencies listed above, you will also need GNU Make and Ninja (E.g. with Chocolatey:
choco install make ninja). - Build from within a "Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt" (or manually run vcvars64.bat for cmd or Launch-VsDevShell.ps1 for powershell. See here and here for details).
- Run
make release, or the commands listed in the previous section.
You can also build within Visual Studio, as long as you run make release first (or make debug), and then use the CMake plugin.
We welcome contributions to Kùzu. If you are interested in contributing to Kùzu, please read our Contributing Guide.
By contributing to Kùzu, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the MIT License.
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 [email protected] or join our Slack workspace.