Alternatives

Shardingsphere alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Shardingsphere

Empowering Data Intelligence with Distributed SQL for Sharding, Scalability, and Security Across All Databases.

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#1

Debezium

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 100

Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.

13K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add debezium/debezium
#2

Citus

Similarity 111Trust 86Excellent 100

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

13K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add citusdata/citus
#3

Starrocks

Similarity 109Trust 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
#4

Airflow

Similarity 105Trust 90Excellent 100

Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

46K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
$ npx skills add apache/airflow
#5

TDengine

Similarity 104Trust 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
#6

Cockroach

Similarity 104Trust 85Excellent 100

CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add cockroachdb/cockroach
#7

Rqlite

Similarity 104Trust 88Excellent 100

The lightweight, fault-tolerant database built on SQLite. Designed to keep your data highly available with minimal effort.

18K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add rqlite/rqlite
#8

Dbeaver

Similarity 103Trust 87Excellent 100

Free universal database tool and SQL client

51K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add dbeaver/dbeaver
#9

Trino

Similarity 101Trust 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
#10

Flyway

Similarity 100Trust 86Excellent 99

Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.

9.9K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add flyway/flyway
#11

Jailer

Similarity 98Trust 85Excellent 100

Database Subsetting and Relational Data Browsing Tool.

3.2K starsJul 28, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add Wisser/Jailer
#12

Tidb

Similarity 97Trust 89Excellent 100

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

40K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add pingcap/tidb
#13

Pathway

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 100

Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.

63K starsJul 2, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
$ npx skills add pathwaycom/pathway
#14

ClickHouse

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 100

ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system

48K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ClickHouse/ClickHouse
#15

Duckdb

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 100

DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system

39K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb
#16

Metabase

Similarity 96Trust 85Excellent 100

The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:

48K starsJun 30, 2026 pushdata-analysisClojureBI
$ npx skills add metabase/metabase

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