Commit 393a0664 authored by Michael Angelo Rivera's avatar Michael Angelo Rivera
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Rebrand Knowledge Graph design document to GitLab Orbit

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Building the satellite service in Rust, leveraging its performance characteristics and type system guarantees.



Rust is gaining traction within GitLab: the [Knowledge Graph](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/rust/knowledge-graph), GLQL, and the GLFM gem are built in Rust. A LabKit for Rust is being developed, and the Auth Architecture team has selected Rust for their services.

Rust is gaining traction within GitLab: the [Knowledge Graph](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph), GLQL, and the GLFM gem are built in Rust. A LabKit for Rust is being developed, and the Auth Architecture team has selected Rust for their services.



**Pros**:

content/handbook/engineering/architecture/design-documents/gitlab_knowledge_graph/_index.md→content/handbook/engineering/architecture/design-documents/orbit/_index.md

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title: GitLab Knowledge Graph

title: GitLab Orbit

status: ongoing

creation-date: "2025-10-12"

authors: ["@michaelangeloio", "@michaelusa", "@jgdoyon1", "@bohdanpk"]
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## Overview



The GitLab Knowledge Graph (Orbit) is a Rust service that builds a property graph from GitLab instance data (SDLC metadata and code structure) and exposes it through a JSON-based Cypher-like DSL compiled to ClickHouse SQL. It provides a unified context API for AI systems (via MCP) and human users.

GitLab Orbit (formerly the GitLab Knowledge Graph) is a Rust service that builds a property graph from GitLab instance data (SDLC metadata and code structure) and exposes it through a JSON-based Cypher-like DSL compiled to ClickHouse SQL. It provides a unified context API for AI systems (via MCP) and human users.



The service indexes two types of data into property graph format:
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    GitLab[GitLab Core] -- CDC replication --> DIP[Data Insights Platform]

    GKG -- Git RPC --> GitLab

    DIP -- datalake --> CH[(ClickHouse)]

    CH <-- graph tables --> GKG[Knowledge Graph · Orbit]

    CH <-- graph tables --> GKG[GitLab Orbit]

    GitLab -. gRPC / AuthZ .-> GKG



    style GitLab fill:#333,color:#fff,stroke:#333

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# UX Forum renamed to Upstream Forum - remove 2027-07-06

/handbook/product/ux/ux-forum/ /handbook/product/ux/upstream-forum/ 301



# GitLab Knowledge Graph design document renamed to Orbit - remove 2027-07-07

/handbook/engineering/architecture/design-documents/gitlab_knowledge_graph/ /handbook/engineering/architecture/design-documents/orbit/ 301