Embedded, scalable, blazing fast graph database

The easiest way to manage knowledge graphs and vectors.

Kuzu at a Glance

Runs in-process

Embedded, no external servers. Stores on-disk or in-memory

Fast and Scalable

Columnar storage, vectorized processing, and novel join algorithms

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Cypher

Property graph data model with Cypher query language support

Full-featured

Graph-native full-text search index, HNSW vector index, algorithms package, and more

AI and Data Ecosystem

Works with LangChain, PyTorch Geometric, LlamaIndex, Pandas, Parquet, Iceberg, and more

Open-source

Free and open-source (MIT licensed) with support options

Install Kuzu

pip install kuzu

Version: 0.9.0

What People Say

In line with our philosophy of 'building a lakehouse from spare parts', we were looking for an in-process graph database to run lineage queries: Kuzu is very fast and has great foundations as the team behind it, and handles all the strange inferences we throw at it.

Jacopo Tagliabue

Jacopo Tagliabue

Founder of Bauplan Labs

Embedded DBs are having a renaissance. RDBMS: SQLite, OLAP: DuckDB, Graph: KuzuDB, Search: Chroma. The developer experience is so good on these. Things just work. Really cool to see.

Chris Riccomini

Chris Riccomini

@criccomini

Kuzu is a really good graph database. If DuckDB is as an emerging power in the relational database world, there is Kuzu in the GDBMS world, and it is open source and faithful to the basics.

Jeong Yitae

Jeong Yitae

@jeongiitae

KuzuDB has straightforward integrations with Polars, NetworkX, Pandas, PyArrow and...Torch Geometric! Meaning that you can export data towards Graph Machine Learning with one method call.

Francois Vanderseypen

Francois Vanderseypen

Data Scientist

One of my favorite recent discoveries is @kuzudb. Super lightweight and supports the Cypher query language, such a nice project for graph analytics.

Chris Norman

Chris Norman

@chr_norm

Our Team

Kuzu is built by a team of developers at Kùzu Inc, a company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Reach out to us at [email protected].

Semih Salihoğlu

Semih Salihoğlu

CEO & Co-founder

Stanford University, PhD

Associate Professor at

University of Waterloo

Ardan Arac

Ardan Arac

CPO & Co-founder

Princeton University, BSE

ex-Senior Director of Product at

Google

Guodong Jin

Guodong Jin

Software Engineer & Co-founder

Renmin University of China, PhD

ex-Postdoc Researcher at

University of Waterloo

Xiyang Feng

Xiyang Feng

Software Engineer & Co-founder

University of Waterloo, MMath

Ziyi Chen

Ziyi Chen

Software Engineer & Co-founder

University of Waterloo, BCS

Chang Liu

Chang Liu

DevOps Engineer & Co-founder

University of Waterloo, MMath

Benjamin Winger

Benjamin Winger

Software Engineer

University of Waterloo, BCS

Prashanth Rao

Prashanth Rao

AI Engineer

Simon Fraser University, MSc

University of Michigan, MS

Kuzu Support Options

Kùzu Inc. provides professional support for using Kuzu, ensuring timely responses and flexible coverage.

Community Support

  • Public issue tracker
  • No guaranteed response time
  • No guaranteed resolution

Custom Support

  • Private issue tracker
  • Guaranteed response time
  • Deployment and performance advice

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