# CozoDB

6 Hacker News commenters recommended CozoDB and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Embedded Datalog database that people find impressive and worth trying, though critics say the project seems abandoned with no recent commits.

## Why people recommend it

- Impressive to early users (2 comments): "cozodb is quite impressive and I've wondered about the funding sources etc on it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024556)) "so far I'm quite impressed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021701))

## What people warn about

- Appears abandoned, no recent commits (3 comments): "really cool but seems to be abandoned" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818985)) "It seems like the project has been abandoned? Last commit a year ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813463)) "That project has 0 commits for 2 years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327947))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LatticeDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/latticedb.md): 9 recommend
- [Neo4j](https://hackerapproved.com/p/neo4j.md): 8 recommend
- [LadybugDB](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ladybugdb.md): 7 recommend
- [Kuzu graph database](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kuzu.md): 7 recommend
- [Grafeo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grafeo.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "CozoDB", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cozodb/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).