Details
- Vendor
- LadybugDB
- Type
- Property Graph
- Kind
- Embedded
- Category
- Growing
- License
- MIT
- Language
- C++
- Query Languages
- openCypher
LadybugDB
A community fork of Kuzu. An embedded columnar property graph database for analytical workloads, with openCypher support, vector indices, and full-text search.
- Overall rank
- #8
- First released
- November 2025
- License
- MIT
- Built with
- C++
Details
Sources 3 references
Released 2025-11
LadybugDB, a community fork of the archived Kuzu project, shipped its first post-Kuzu release in early November 2025 (announced Wednesday 5 November, reported 7 November); confirms current value. This is the fork's own release date, distinct from Kuzu's original 2022-11 first release.
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On Wednesday, LadybugDB announced its first post-Kuzu release, which mostly focused on providing continuity for Kuzu users and ensuring contributors retain copyright on their own works
The Weekly Edge: New Gremlin Contributor, 2 Graph Releases, Ontologies in Aura, & More [7 November 2025] · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language C++
Ladybug is Kuzu's successor/rename and shares its build system. The CMakeLists.txt declares the project's languages as CXX (C++) and C directly.
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cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15) project(Lbug VERSION 0.19.0 LANGUAGES CXX C)
CMakeLists.txt - LadybugDB/ladybug · reviewed 2026-08-02
License MIT
SPDX identifier as classified by GitHub from the repository licence file.
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"spdx_id": "MIT"
GitHub licence API — LadybugDB/ladybug · reviewed 2026-08-02