# Install kuzu with Homebrew, Nix

Embeddable graph database management system built for query speed & scalability. Version 0.11.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#kuzu.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kuzu
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kuzu
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#kuzu
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ku/kuzu/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kuzu
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.11.3
- **Source summary:** Embeddable graph database management system built for query speed & scalability
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- kuzu (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.11.3
## Project history and usage

Kuzu is an embedded property graph database for analytical graph workloads, combining a Cypher-facing graph model with an in-process deployment style closer to SQLite or DuckDB than to a server database.

### Project history

Kuzu was initially developed by Kuzu Inc. and the official docs describe it as coming out of academic database research by a team focused on graph storage, query processing, and scalability. Its core design includes columnar disk storage, CSR adjacency and join indices, vectorized and factorized query processing, efficient join algorithms, multi-core parallelism, and serializable ACID transactions.

### Adoption history

Kuzu attracted attention as an embeddable graph DBMS for applications, notebooks, data science, and graph analytics where running a separate graph server is inconvenient. The project shipped client APIs across languages, a CLI, and integrations with formats and systems such as Parquet, Arrow, DuckDB, and SQLite.

### How it is used

Users create a Kuzu database either on disk or in memory, define a structured property graph schema, import data from files, and query with Cypher. The docs emphasize that embedded use avoids installing or managing an external DBMS server.

### Why package nerds care

Kuzu matters to package nerds because it packages graph database functionality as an embeddable library and CLI, making graph queries feel installable like a local data tool. The later archive notice and v0.11.3 extension-bundling release also make it a case study in how package ecosystems handle project wind-downs and extension delivery.

### Timeline

- 2025: v0.8.0 added Kuzu-WASM for browser-based graph analytics and a full-text-search extension.
- October 10, 2025: The GitHub repository was archived by its owner.
- v0.11.3: Bundled the algo, fts, json, and vector extensions so users did not need to install those extensions separately.

### Related projects

- Kuzu is related to Cypher and Neo4j-style graph querying, and it interoperates with data tooling such as Parquet, Arrow, DuckDB, SQLite, and language clients for Python, Node.js, Java, Rust, Go, Swift, C++, and C.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu>
- <https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu/releases/tag/v0.11.3>
- <https://github.com/kuzudb/kuzu/releases/tag/v0.8.0>
- <https://kuzudb.github.io/docs/>
- <https://kuzudb.github.io/docs/get-started/>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - kuzu: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ku/kuzu/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/kuzu.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/kuzu.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph