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Graph Chat with Akon Dey, Co-Founder of RyuGraph

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Graph Chat with Akon Dey, Co-Founder of RyuGraph

In the before times, everyone’s favourite embedded graph database was Kuzu. Then, on October 10th, Kuzu DB was quickly and quietly archived on GitHub, and immediately afterwards, there was a great disturbance in the graph tech ecosystem, as thousands of voices suddenly cried out in terror.

Since that fateful day, a great number of forks of the original Kuzu graph database have been taken up by various teams, orgs, and communities. One of the most interesting forks has been RyuGraph – which rose out of Kuzu’s ashes a few weeks later.

In this Graph Chat video series for GraphGeeks, Amy Hodler interviewed Akon Dey, Co-Founder of Predictable Labs and of RyuGraph last October at ODSC West in San Francisco. Catch the video below! 

Graph Chat Interview with Akon Dey, Co-Founder of RyuGraph

Akon Dey is CEO and Co-Founder of Predictable Labs, which he started with my old Hypermode colleague Harshil Goel, and together they created RyuGraph. Akon is a veteran of databases with over 30 years of experience, including serving as the CEO of Dgraph for a time.

In this Graph Chat interview, Akon shares his story and vision for the RyuGraph project, including:

  • Origin and Fork: Akon discusses his history with database internals and explains why his team at Predictable Labs forked the KuzuDB project: to implement necessary features for a customer before Kuzu’s status changed.
  • Primary Use Case: RyuGraph is a key component in Predictable Labs’ suite of products focused on knowledge and context management for AI and agents.
  • Commitment to Open Source: Akon outlines his philosophy on maintaining open source sustainability: building a commercially viable product around the open source core ensures the core developers and the community both benefit from high visibility and necessary investment.

More about RyuGraph

RyuGraph, a fork of Kuzu, is an embedded graph database built for query speed and scalability. RyuGraph is optimized for handling complex analytical workloads on very large databases and provides a set of retrieval features, such as a full-text search and vector indices. 

Its core feature set includes:

  • Flexible property graph data model and Cypher query language
  • Embeddable, serverless integration into applications
  • Native full-text search and vector index
  • Columnar disk-based storage
  • Columnar sparse row-based (CSR) adjacency list/join indices
  • Vectorized and factorized query processor
  • Novel and very fast join algorithms
  • Multi-core query parallelism
  • Serializable ACID transactions
  • Wasm (WebAssembly) bindings for fast, secure execution in the browser

RyuGraph is maintained by Predictable Labs, Inc. and is available under a permissible license, ensuring the continued advancement of this innovative graph database solution.

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The Graph Chat video series by GraphGeeks aims to ask diverse leaders and practitioners in the space about where the future of graph technology is headed. This and other episodes were sponsored by G.V() – the graph database IDE. 

Special thanks to Amy Hodler (Studio Exec, Producer, On-Screen Talent), David Hughes (Camera Wizard, Audio Engineer), and to Bryce Merkl Sasaki (Camera Adjuster at Bad Times). 

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Bryce Merkl Sasaki

Bryce Merkl Sasaki is a writer and editor based in Silicon Valley. A digital nomad and total nerd, he’s wandered the worlds of database and graph tech for more than a decade, covering big moments, interviewing interesting minds, and bringing abstract graph concepts back down to earth. Outside of work, he enjoys hikes with his wife in Northern California and writes on his science fiction novel.

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