Browser-based user interface for the Kùzu graph database.
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Kùzu Explorer is a web application that is launched from a deployed Docker image. Please refer to the Docker documentation for details on how to install and use Docker.
Below we show two different ways to launch Kùzu Explorer. Each of these options make Kùzu Explorer accessible on http://localhost:8000. If the launching is successful, you should see the logs similar to the following in your shell:
Access mode: READ_WRITE
Version of Kùzu: v0.0.11
Deployed server started on port: 8000
To access an existing Kùzu database, you can mount its path to the /database
directory as follows:
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
By mounting local database files to Docker via -v /absolute/path/to/database:/database
,
the changes done in the UI will persist to the local database files after the UI is shutdown.
The --rm
flag tells docker that the container should automatically be removed after we close docker.
You can also launch Kùzu Explorer without specifying an existing database. Kùzu Explorer comes with
bundled datasets that you can use to explore the basic functionalities of Kùzu.
This is simply done by removing the -v
flag in the example above. If no database path is specified
with -v
, the server will be started with an empty database.
docker run -p 8000:8000 --rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
Click on the Datasets
tab on the top right corner and then: (i) you can select one of the bundled dataset
of your choice from the drow-down menu; (ii) load it into Kùzu by clicking the "Load Dataset" button; and (iii)
finally use Kùzu Explorer to explore it.
By default, Kùzu Explorer is launched in read-write mode, which means that you can modify the database. If you want to launch Kùzu Explorer in read-only mode, you can do so by setting the MODE
environment variable to READ_ONLY
as follows.
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database \
-e MODE=READ_ONLY \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
In read-only mode, you can still issue read queries and visualize the results, but you cannot run write queries or modify the schema.
By default, Kùzu Explorer is launched with a maximum buffer pool size of 80% of the available memory. If you want to launch Kùzu Explorer with a different buffer pool size, you can do so by setting the KUZU_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE
environment variable to the desired value in bytes as follows.
For example, to launch Kùzu Explorer with a buffer pool size of 1GB, you can run the following command.
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database \
-e KUZU_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE=1073741824 \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
By default, Kùzu Explorer is launched in disk-based mode. If you want to launch Kùzu Explorer in in-memory mode, you can do so by setting the KUZU_IN_MEMORY
environment variable to true
as follows.
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
-e KUZU_IN_MEMORY=true \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
In in-memory mode, the database is stored in memory and all changes are lost when the server is shut down even if a database directory is mounted. Also, read-only access mode is not supported in in-memory mode.
If you want to launch Kùzu Explorer with the latest development build of Kùzu, you can do so by using the dev
tag instead of latest
.
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:dev
The dev
tag is updated daily, approximately two hours after the latest dev build of Kùzu is released.
When a new version of Kùzu Explorer is released after the initial launch, re-launching the container WILL NOT automatically update the local image to the latest version. To update the local image to the latest version, you can run the following command.
docker pull kuzudb/explorer:latest
After pulling the latest image, you can re-launch the container with the same command as before.
If you are using Podman instead of Docker, you can launch Kùzu Explorer by replacing docker
with podman
in the commands above. However, note that by default Podman maps the default user account to the root
user in the container. This may cause permission issues when mounting local database files to the container. To avoid this, you can use the --userns=keep-id
flag to keep the user ID of the current user inside the container, or enable :U
option for each volume to change the owner and group of the source volume to the current user.
For example:
podman run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database:U \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
or,
podman run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database \
--userns=keep-id \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
Please refer to the official Podman docs for mounting external volumes and user namespace mode for more information.
For more information regarding launching and using Kùzu Explorer, please refer to the documentation.
- Server
- Client
npm i
git submodule update --init --recursive
npm run build-kuzu
npm run generate-grammar
npm run fetch-datasets
env KUZU_PATH=path/to/database npm run serve
npm run eslint
Include -fix
for automatic correction of fixable styles.
npm run eslint-fix
npm run build
env KUZU_PATH=path/to/database npm run serve-prod
docker build -t kuzudb/explorer:latest .
docker run -p 8000:8000 \
-v /absolute/path/to/database:/database \
--rm kuzudb/explorer:latest
A GitHub actions pipeline has been configured to automatically build and deploy
the Docker image to Docker Hub upon pushing to the master branch. The pipeline will build images
for both amd64
and arm64
platforms.
We welcome contributions to Kùzu Explorer. By contributing to Kùzu Explorer, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the MIT License.