Details
- Vendor
- Kineviz
- Type
- Property Graph
- Kind
- Embedded
- Category
- Emerging
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C++
- Query Languages
- openCypher
Bighorn
A community fork of Kuzu maintained by Kineviz. An embedded property graph database with openCypher support, adding vector search and full-text search capabilities. Integrates with GraphXR visualization.
- Overall rank
- #89
- First released
- October 2025
- License
- MIT
- Built with
- C++
Details
Sources 3 references
License MIT
SPDX identifier as classified by GitHub from the repository licence file.
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"spdx_id": "MIT"
GitHub licence API — Kineviz/bighorn · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2025-10
Confirms the current value; Bighorn is Kineviz's fork of the archived KuzuDB project, created in October 2025 after Kuzu Inc. abandoned active development.
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As an open source project, Kuzu can be forked, and one company, Kineviz, has already done so, under the name bighorn.
KuzuDB graph database abandoned, community mulls options · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language C++
Confirms the current value; Bighorn inherits Kuzu's C++ codebase, and GitHub reports C++ as the repository's primary language.
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"watchers_count": 132, "language": "C++", "has_issues": false,
Kineviz/bighorn (GitHub API repository object) · reviewed 2026-08-02