The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kùzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative.
A few days ago, the GitHub project was archived and a note appeared stating that "Kuzu is working on something new." In addition, the documentation and blog post archive were moved from the Kuzu website to GitHub.
KuzuDB is designed for analytics on large databases and includes full text search, vector indexes, query parallelism for fast performance on multi-core hosts, and WebAssembly bindings for in-browser use. As an embedded database manager, it is easily integrated into applications. The first release was in November 2022, and it was based on research from the University of Waterloo in O