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LadybugDB
ladybug
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LadybugDB / ladybug

ladybug

LadybugDB a graph database

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13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.9KGitHub stars
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LadybugDB a graph database

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2025-10-17 01:03:33 UTC to 2026-08-25 20:46:03 UTC.

012342025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsOct 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsMar 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsAug 2026

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Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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What Hacker News says

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Thank you for the shout out! I looked into your benchmark setup a bit. Two things going on: - Ladybug by default allocates 80% of the physical memory to the buffer pool. You can limit it. This wasn't the main reason. - Much of the RSS is in ladybug native memory connected to the python connection object. I noticed that you keep the connection open between benchmark runs. For whatever reason, python is not able to garbage collect the memory. We ran into similar lifetime issues with golang and nodejs bindings as well. Many race conditions where the garbage collector releases memory while another thread still has a reference to native memory. We now require that the connection be closed for the memory to be released. https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug/issues/320 https://github.com/LadybugDB/go-ladybug/issues/7 https://github.com/Lady
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In Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust
LadybugDB (https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug) at this point seems to be the only sustainable fork. When deciding what to do about the Kuzu archival on https://gdotv.com, we've gone with maintaining support for the last available version of Kuzu (it's still heavily used from what I'm seeing) whilst introducing support for LadybugDB. I've looked into a few other forks and at this point in time none seem to be actively maintained for more than a few weeks before getting dropped.
In Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust
Opensource Embedded Columnar Graph Database: https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug Store your graphs in Parquet files on object storage or DuckDB files and query them using strongly typed Cypher. Advanced factorized join algorithms (details in a VLDB 2023 paper when it was called Kuzu). Looking to serve externalized knowledge with small language models using this infra. Watch Andrej Karpathy's Cognitive Core podcasts more details.
In Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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