Apple acquired the Canadian graph database company Kuzu in 2025, purpose unknown.

IT House February 11 News, AppleInsider today discovered that the EU “Major Acquisitions” list shows that Apple acquired Canadian database company Kuzu last October.

IT House notes: The EU’s definition of “major” does not depend on the size of the transaction but on whether the acquisition could be used to provide “core platform services.”

According to the information, Kuzu was founded in 2023, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, and had about 10 employees at the time of acquisition. Its official website is currently offline, and the software repository on GitHub was archived on October 10, 2025. Based on this timeline and statements from former employees on X, outside speculation suggests Apple completed the acquisition around October 2025.

AppleInsider points out that although Apple has long owned the FileMaker database product, it has never offered a standalone database application within the iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, Numbers). This acquisition is seen as a new move by Apple in the data technology field.

Kuzu describes itself on LinkedIn as “an embedded graph database built for query speed, scalability, and ease of use.”

Relational databases store data in predefined table structures and perform queries through relationships between tables; graph databases are more like “mind maps,” expressing relationships between data via nodes and connections. Both have advantages, but one characteristic of graph databases is that they may be more efficient when performing multi-layer cross-relationship queries, because the more tables involved in a relational database query, the more performance is affected.

Additionally, Kuzu has released a browser-based database tool called “Kuzu Explorer,” allowing users to click on a node to see all its connections to other data.

AppleInsider believes that because graph databases differ significantly from the relational database system used by FileMaker, directly integrating Kuzu technology into FileMaker Pro could require a major overhaul of the existing product. Therefore, the potential uses are only speculative: since the visual nature of graph databases is closer to mind maps, Apple might use it for iWork-related features or even as part of future versions of Freeform; additionally, graph databases are often used in social systems, so Apple could leverage this to enhance existing community and content sharing scenarios, such as Game Center communities, Apple Music content sharing, or SharePlay collaboration.