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Datafusion Ballista alternatives for AI agents.

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Datafusion Ballista

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#1

Sail

Similarity 137Trust 93Excellent 100

Drop-in Apache Spark replacement written in Rust, unifying batch processing, stream processing, and compute-intensive AI workloads.

3.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add lakehq/sail
#2

Connector X

Similarity 137Trust 91Excellent 100

Fastest library to load data from DB to DataFrames in Rust and Python

2.6K starsMay 25, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add sfu-db/connector-x
#3

LakeSoul

Similarity 132Trust 93Excellent 100

LakeSoul is an end-to-end, realtime and cloud native Lakehouse framework with fast data ingestion, concurrent update and incremental data analytics on cloud storages for both BI and AI applications.

3.2K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add lakesoul-io/LakeSoul
#4

Roapi

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 100

Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code.

3.4K starsMar 25, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add roapi/roapi
#5

Datafusion Sqlparser Rs

Similarity 129Trust 91Excellent 100

Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust

3.4K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs
#6

Risinglight

Similarity 125Trust 86Excellent 86

An educational OLAP database system.

1.8K starsAug 10, 2025 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add risinglightdb/risinglight
#7

Calcite

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

Apache Calcite

5.1K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/calcite
#8

Ignite

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

Apache Ignite

5.1K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/ignite
#9

Ydb

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions

4.7K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ydb-platform/ydb
#10

Flask AppBuilder

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Simple and rapid application development framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed security, auto CRUD generation for your models, google charts and much more. Demo (login with guest/welcome) - http://flaskappbuilder.pythonanywhere.com/

5.0K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add dpgaspar/Flask-AppBuilder
#11

Dataset

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Easy-to-use data handling for SQL data stores with support for implicit table creation, bulk loading, and transactions.

4.9K starsApr 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add pudo/dataset
#12

Alembic

Similarity 124Trust 91Excellent 100

A database migrations tool for SQLAlchemy.

4.2K starsMay 31, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add sqlalchemy/alembic
#13

Dinky

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Dinky is a real-time data development platform based on Apache Flink, enabling agile data development, deployment and operation.

3.7K starsApr 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add DataLinkDC/dinky
#14

Sqlmesh

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

Scalable and efficient data transformation framework - backwards compatible with dbt.

3.1K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add SQLMesh/sqlmesh
#15

Go Mysql Server

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

A MySQL-compatible relational database with a storage agnostic query engine. Implemented in Go.

2.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add dolthub/go-mysql-server
#16

PolarDB For PostgreSQL

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 100

A cloud-native database based on PostgreSQL developed by Alibaba Cloud.

3.2K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add polardb/PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL

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