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Example database

The dataset used in the tutorials is a social network dataset of users and posts that has the following schema.

Download the data

You can download the zipped data by clicking on this link, or use curl as shown below. Once downloaded, unzip the files to your current working directory.

Terminal window
curl -o tutorial_data.zip https://rgw.cs.uwaterloo.ca/kuzu-test/tutorial/tutorial_data.zip
unzip tutorial_data.zip

Nodes

User

The User node represents users within the social network. Each user has their information attached, such as:

  • user_id (INT64): This is an unique id which is used to sort and find users.
  • username (STRING): This is the unique username which each user will have.
  • account_creation_date (DATE): This represents the date which the account was created.
userID,username,account_creation_date
1,epicwolf202,2022-09-09
2,silentninja637,2023-01-27
3,stormcat597,2023-02-25
4,brightking765,2023-05-11
5,fastgirl798,2021-06-11

Post

The Post node represents the posts which has been made on the social network. Each post has its information attached, such as:

  • post_id (INT64): This is an unique id which is used to sort and find posts.
  • creation_date (DATE): This represents the date which the account was created.
  • like_count (INT64): This represents the amount of likes the post has received.
  • retweet_count (INT64): This represents the amount of retweets the post has received.
postID,creation_date,like_count,retweet_count
1,2021-12-08,427,29
2,2022-06-02,9,16
3,2023-01-14,238,51
4,2023-01-06,67,147
5,2022-10-26,103,73

Relationships

FOLLOWS

The relationship FOLLOWS goes from User node to User node. This relation represents a user following another user on the social network.

followerID,followeeID
1,7
1,6
2,17
2,10
2,13

POSTS

The relationship POSTS goes from User node to Post node. This relation represents a user posting the post on the social network.

userID,postID
17,1
4,2
15,3
7,4
14,5

LIKES

The relationship Likes goes from User node to Post node. This relation represents a user liking the post on the social network.

userID,postID
16,1
2,1
4,1
13,1
11,1

Create Kuzu tables

In the Kuzu CLI, let’s create a node table for the Users in our dataset.

// Create a node table for the `User`s in our dataset.
CREATE NODE TABLE User(
    userID INT64 PRIMARY KEY,
    username STRING,
    account_creation_date DATE
);


// Create a node table for the `Post`s in our dataset.
CREATE NODE TABLE Post(
    postID INT64 PRIMARY KEY,
    creation_date DATE,
    like_count INT64,
    retweet_count INT64
);


// Create a relationship table for the `FOLLOWS` relationship in our dataset.
CREATE REL TABLE FOLLOWS(From User To User);


// Create a relationship table for the `POSTS` relationship in our dataset.
CREATE REL TABLE POSTED(From User To Post);


// Create a relationship table for the `LIKES` relationship in our dataset.
CREATE REL TABLE LIKES(From User To Post);

This will create the required node and relationship tables in Kuzu.