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The maintainers of alibaba/neug usually reply to a pull request within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
176
Forks
36
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
106
Avg merge
1d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
35
Dominant language
C++
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Nov 3, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 14, 2026
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  • [Feature] Skip no-op edge CSR compaction after COPY
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 52 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    performance store transaction

    alibaba/neug#1069 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Index] Add scalar exact-match and prefix indexes for filtered retrieval
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler enhancement executor performance store

    alibaba/neug#1060 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Vector] Optimize brute-force vector distance execution
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement executor performance store

    alibaba/neug#1061 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Optimizer] Choose brute-force or HNSW vector Top-K using a cost model
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler enhancement executor performance store

    alibaba/neug#1059 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [BUG] Fix Windows build errors in the latest commit
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#1057 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Optimize Windows test workflow to accelerate CI pipeline
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 57 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#1041 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Trigger automatic checkpoint when WAL accumulation exceeds a threshold
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 58 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement store transaction

    alibaba/neug#1037 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Java driver: expose explicit transaction expiration metadata
    May be free again @liulx20 claimed this 65 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    client transaction

    alibaba/neug#986 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Cypher] Add DB_VERSION() with engine and checkpoint data compatibility versions
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 70 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler executor store

    alibaba/neug#960 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • perf(transaction): cache plans within private planning revisions
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 66 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler transaction

    alibaba/neug#947 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • build: scope global compile definitions to NeuG targets to avoid full third-party rebuilds
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 79 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#895 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Define and enforce a null contract for IContextColumnBuilder
    May be free again @liulx20 claimed this 80 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug compiler executor store

    alibaba/neug#885 · 1 comment · 2 assignees ·

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  • Adapting NeuG's Windows module for Windows
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 87 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#843 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Explicit Transaction P1-2] Reframe TP WAL into per-commit frames with validated recovery
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 52 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store transaction

    alibaba/neug#832 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Support explicit transaction control (BEGIN / COMMIT / ROLLBACK) end-to-end
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 101 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    client enhancement executor transaction

    alibaba/neug#779 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • When CI is scheduled to arm machine, it takes serveral minutes to build the clang-format package for pip install
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 105 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#772 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Support running NeuG on Windows
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 113 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    client engine

    alibaba/neug#743 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • MutableCSR should resize nbr_list and migrate temp adj_list to `nbr_list_`
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 114 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store

    alibaba/neug#739 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Feature] Optimize bulk load performance for CSV COPY inputs
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 114 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement executor performance store

    alibaba/neug#735 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Checkpoint dump expands storage before persisting, causing excessive SF1000 I/O
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 87 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store

    alibaba/neug#700 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add nightly test matrix for extension-test to validate released versions
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 129 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#642 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Refer to zvec for better wheel packing
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 86 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci dependency

    alibaba/neug#617 · 1 comment · 2 assignees ·

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  • Expose COW/fork semantics in GraphInterface for pre-mutation invocation by operators
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement store transaction

    alibaba/neug#585 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Explore optimized approaches for COW state management and snapshot-to-snapshot transitions
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store transaction

    alibaba/neug#581 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Optimize COW implementation to reduce performance overhead
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store transaction

    alibaba/neug#579 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Decouple graph mutation APIs from Transaction and move to storage-agnostic GraphInterface
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store transaction

    alibaba/neug#578 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Support an index framework and vector/FTS/etc indexes in NeuG
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 140 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler executor extension store transaction

    alibaba/neug#570 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add regression testing framework to NeuG's test module
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 141 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#561 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Unify Compiler Value with Engine Value System
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 146 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler executor

    alibaba/neug#521 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Unify Compiler and Engine Schema & Value System
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 148 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler executor

    alibaba/neug#518 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] NeuG v0.2 Marketing & Promotion
    May be free again @BingqingLyu claimed this 155 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    alibaba/neug#461 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Fully support Node.js binding for NeuG
    May be free again @Spockkk0225 claimed this 161 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    client enhancement

    alibaba/neug#418 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Need to include test cases to benchmark
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 167 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    engine

    alibaba/neug#395 · 2 assignees ·

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  • Support Apache Iceberg data lake through extension
    May be free again @BingqingLyu claimed this 177 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    alibaba/neug#343 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Refactor CI/CD workflow
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 177 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#340 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Support exporting the query result to other python data format
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 181 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    client

    alibaba/neug#329 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Refine checkpoint mechanism
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 197 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement store

    alibaba/neug#272 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Grouping adhoc issues
    May be free again @longbinlai claimed this 199 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug

    alibaba/neug#257 · 1 assignee ·

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  • We should avoid using explicit fixed directory names for all tests
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 202 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    ci

    alibaba/neug#248 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Improve & Extend COPY FROM: schema, typing, performance, options
    May be free again @shirly121 claimed this 205 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    compiler extension

    alibaba/neug#221 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] [Feature] External Data Support: Multi-Format, Remote Filesystem, Data Lake, and Optimization
    May be free again @BingqingLyu claimed this 218 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement extension

    alibaba/neug#158 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] Issues from graph testing benchmark
    May be free again @lnfjpt claimed this 225 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    bug ci

    alibaba/neug#122 · 2 assignees ·

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  • [Tracking] Refactor UpdateTransaction
    May be free again @zhanglei1949 claimed this 231 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    store

    alibaba/neug#86 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [CI] linux-npm package job leaves root-owned files in the shared self-hosted runner work dir, breaking subsequent PR checkouts (EACCES)
    Possibly taken @BingqingLyu claimed this today. Open
    bug ci

    alibaba/neug#1197 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • Linux npm packaging leaves workspace files that block subsequent CI checkout
    Possibly taken @Spockkk0225 claimed this today. Open
    ci

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100

    alibaba/neug#1195 · 1 comment ·

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  • [BUG] Extension C++ tests can be omitted from CI and break macOS wheel repair
    Possibly taken @Spockkk0225 claimed this today. Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    alibaba/neug#1193 ·

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  • [BUG] bump_version.py strips the leading v from v-prefixed versions on bump
    Possibly taken @BingqingLyu claimed this today. Open
    bug ci

    alibaba/neug#1191 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [BUG] Windows ARM64 vector_search links unavailable RaBitQ libraries
    Possibly taken @Spockkk0225 claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    ci extension

    alibaba/neug#1183 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Tracking] NeuG Performance Issues Identified by the Ontology Business Platform
    Possibly taken @shirly121 claimed this 10 days ago. Open

    alibaba/neug#1154 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Transaction] Enable concurrent Insert Transactions for indexed CREATE
    Possibly taken @shirly121 claimed this 7 days ago. Open
    store transaction

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    alibaba/neug#1152 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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