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Datafusion Ballista alternatives for AI agents.

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Datafusion

Similarity 170Trust 86Excellent 99

Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine

8.9K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add apache/datafusion
#2

Spark

Similarity 135Trust 87Excellent 100

Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing

43K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisScalaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/spark
#3

Flink

Similarity 134Trust 87Excellent 100

Apache Flink

26K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/flink
#4

Beam

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 99

Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.

8.6K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/beam
#5

ClickHouse

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system

48K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ClickHouse/ClickHouse
#6

Duckdb

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system

39K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb
#7

TDengine

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 100

High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios

25K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add taosdata/TDengine
#8

Sqlmodel

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.

18K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add fastapi/sqlmodel
#9

Sqlc

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

Generate type-safe code from SQL

18K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add sqlc-dev/sqlc
#10

Presto

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

The official home of the Presto distributed SQL query engine for big data

17K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add prestodb/presto
#11

Trino

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

13K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add trinodb/trino
#12

Starrocks

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 100

The world's fastest open query engine for sub-second analytics both on and off the data lakehouse. With the flexibility to support nearly any scenario, StarRocks provides best-in-class performance for multi-dimensional analytics, real-time analytics, and ad-hoc queries. A Linux Foundation project.

12K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add StarRocks/starrocks
#13

Sqlalchemy

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

The Database Toolkit for Python

12K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy
#14

Sqlfluff

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 99

A modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.

9.8K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonSQL
$ npx skills add sqlfluff/sqlfluff
#15

Turso

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 100

Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.

20K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add tursodatabase/turso
#16

Sqlx

Similarity 124Trust 88Excellent 100

🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

17K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add transact-rs/sqlx

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