LadybugDB
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“it's still open-sourcing' as LadybugDB”
“A columnar storage engine means you get indexes and the relational goodness for free.”
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“If you like kuzudb check out https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug”
“LadybugDB is carrying on the Kuzu torch.”
“LadybugDB (https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug) at this point seems to be the only sustainable fork.”
Caveats and dissent
“Ladybug is still very limited in terms of use cases and functionalities.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Icebug and LadybugDB can be tightly integrated to efficiently move tables encoded as compressed sparse row (CSR) into arrow memory.”
“it's a graph database with relational internals and some internal warts that makes it hard to compose queries”
“You can judge for yourself what work has been done in the last 5 months.”
“Also focusing on just one query language: strongly typed cypher.”
“Opensource Embedded Columnar Graph Database”
Threads where it came up
- Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust 5 mentions
- Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases 3 mentions
- Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust 2 mentions
- Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion 2 mentions
- AWS Acquires DuckLabs 1 mention
- Knowledge Compressor 1 mention
Also written as Ladybug. Data: ladybugdb.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
Here's a comparison matrix, although it doesn't include ladybug yet: https://github.com/project-minigraf/minigraf/wiki/Comparison
“it's still open-sourcing' as LadybugDB”
“A columnar storage engine means you get indexes and the relational goodness for free.”
“For knowledge.lbdb.zst, first decompress with zstd and then run a cypher such as:”
“appears to be an open source successor to Kuzu”
“See also: https://ladybugdb.com/ "DuckDB for graphs"”
There’s a fork https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug that you can use.
“The icebug/ladybug way is coarse grained”
“If you like kuzudb check out https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug”
“ladybug-duckdb-and-postgresql”
“Ladybug is still very limited in terms of use cases and functionalities.”
“LadybugDB is carrying on the Kuzu torch.”
“LadybugDB (https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug) at this point seems to be the only sustainable fork.”
“Might be worth checking out LadybugDB (the main fork), migration is pretty easy.”