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 87Excellent 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

Flink Cdc

Similarity 114Trust 87Excellent 100

Flink CDC is a streaming data integration tool

6.5K starsAug 25, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaData Pipeline
$ npx skills add apache/flink-cdc
#3

Citus

Similarity 111Trust 85Excellent 100

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

13K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add citusdata/citus
#4

Starrocks

Similarity 109Trust 87Excellent 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
#5

Ignite

Similarity 107Trust 86Excellent 99

Apache Ignite

5.1K starsAug 26, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/ignite
#6

Airflow

Similarity 105Trust 90Excellent 100

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

47K starsAug 25, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonETL
$ npx skills add apache/airflow
#7

TDengine

Similarity 104Trust 87Excellent 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

Cockroach

Similarity 104Trust 84Excellent 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
#9

Rqlite

Similarity 103Trust 87Excellent 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
#10

Dbeaver

Similarity 102Trust 85Excellent 100

Free universal database tool and SQL client

51K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add dbeaver/dbeaver
#11

Trino

Similarity 101Trust 86Excellent 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

Flyway

Similarity 100Trust 84Excellent 99

Flyway by Redgate • Database Migrations Made Easy.

9.9K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add flyway/flyway
#13

Hive

Similarity 99Trust 86Excellent 100

Apache Hive

6.0K starsAug 26, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add apache/hive
#14

Jailer

Similarity 97Trust 84Excellent 97

Database Subsetting and Relational Data Browsing Tool.

3.2K starsJul 28, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaSQL
$ npx skills add Wisser/Jailer
#15

Tidb

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 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
#16

Pathway

Similarity 96Trust 85Excellent 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

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