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Install ladybug with Homebrew

Embedded graph database built for query speed and scalability. Version 0.18.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-01.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install ladybug

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overview

Package summary

Embedded graph database built for query speed and scalability

Commands and aliases

  • lbug

history

Project history and usage

Ladybug is a newer embedded columnar graph database with a command-line shell and language bindings. Its official positioning is as a Kuzu successor and as a graph-oriented analogue to the embedded, analytical database style popularized by DuckDB.

Project history

The LadybugDB site frames the project as a response to Kuzu's open-source development halt after acquisition, with LadybugDB carrying forward the embedded graph database idea with an open-source license, enterprise support, and a low-friction install path. The documentation describes Ladybug as an embedded graph database optimized for complex join-heavy analytical workloads on large graphs, using property graphs, Cypher, columnar disk storage, CSR adjacency and join indexes, vectorized and factorized execution, multi-core query parallelism, and serializable ACID transactions.

Adoption history

Public adoption evidence is thin because the project is young, but the official site advertises curl and Homebrew installation, and the GitHub release feed shows packaged CLI and library artifacts for Linux, macOS, and Windows. That makes the Homebrew formula part of the project's early distribution story rather than an afterthought.

How it is used

Users can run the lbug CLI as a standalone shell for Cypher interaction, or embed Ladybug through language bindings. The docs emphasize in-process use with no external DBMS server, plus interoperability with formats and systems such as Parquet, Arrow, and DuckDB.

Why package nerds care

For package watchers, Ladybug is interesting as a fast-moving database fork/successor story: a research-heavy embedded graph database lineage repackaged with command-line binaries, language SDKs, and Homebrew installation soon after launch.

Timeline

  • 2026: The official website described LadybugDB as a Kuzu successor and advertised Homebrew installation.
  • 2026-06-02: GitHub release v0.17.1 published CLI and library artifacts for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Related projects

  • LadybugDB is explicitly related to Kuzu, Cypher, DuckDB, Parquet, Arrow, and embedded analytical database workflows.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for ladybug. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
lbugcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.18.0
manager updated2026-07-01
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.18.0

https://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:ladybug
Version0.18.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ladybug
Homepagehttps://ladybugdb.com/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug
Upstream docshttps://docs.ladybugdb.com/
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/LadybugDB/ladybug/archive/refs/tags/v0.18.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-01T03:08:52Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesopenssl@4
Build dependenciescmake
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameladybug
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • openssl@4Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • cmakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • cayleyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, graph, graph-database.
  • kuzuShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cypher, data, database, embedded-database.
  • cypher-shellShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cypher, data, database, graph-database.
  • berkeley-dbShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, embedded-database.
  • dbxmlShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, embedded-database.
  • derbyShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, data, database, embedded-database.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment