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.
Elsewhere
- Overall rank
- #102
- First released
- October 2025
- License
- MIT
- Built with
- C++
Lineage
- Graphflow, 2017: no longer developed.
- Kuzu, 2022: successor to Graphflow; no longer developed.
- Bighorn, 2025: fork of Kuzu.
- RyuGraph, 2025: fork of Kuzu.
- LadybugDB, 2025: fork of Kuzu.
- NeuG, 2026: based on GraphScope; borrows code from Kuzu.
- pg_ladybug, 2026: based on LadybugDB.
Details
Sources 4 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
Lineage fork of Kuzu
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This is a fork from the original kuzu/kuzudb
Kineviz/bighorn README · reviewed 2026-09-23