Alternatives

Citus alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Citus

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

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#1

Timescaledb

Similarity 140Trust 90Excellent 100

A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension

23K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add timescale/timescaledb
#2

Orioledb

Similarity 138Trust 91Excellent 100

OrioleDB – building a modern cloud-native storage engine (... and solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems)

4.1K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add orioledb/orioledb
#3

Cockroach

Similarity 135Trust 90Excellent 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
#4

Rqlite

Similarity 134Trust 93Excellent 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
#5

Starrocks

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 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
#6

TDengine

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

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

25K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add taosdata/TDengine
#7

Sea Orm

Similarity 133Trust 90Excellent 100

🐚 A powerful relational ORM for Rust

9.7K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add SeaQL/sea-orm
#8

Ydb

Similarity 132Trust 91Excellent 100

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

4.7K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ydb-platform/ydb
#9

Npgsql

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

Npgsql is the .NET data provider for PostgreSQL.

3.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisC#SQL
$ npx skills add npgsql/npgsql
#10

Bob

Similarity 130Trust 91Excellent 100

SQL query builder and ORM/Factory generator for Go with support for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite

1.7K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add stephenafamo/bob
#11

Efcore.Pg

Similarity 130Trust 89Excellent 100

Entity Framework Core provider for PostgreSQL

1.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdata-analysisC#SQL
$ npx skills add npgsql/efcore.pg
#12

Sea Query

Similarity 129Trust 86Excellent 99

🔱 A dynamic SQL query builder for MySQL, Postgres and SQLite

1.7K starsJun 6, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add SeaQL/sea-query
#13

PolarDB For PostgreSQL

Similarity 129Trust 89Excellent 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
#14

Cornucopia

Similarity 128Trust 87Excellent 99

Generate type-checked Rust from your PostgreSQL.

1.1K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add cornucopia-rs/cornucopia
#15

Dungbeetle

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 96

A distributed job server built specifically for queuing and executing heavy SQL read jobs asynchronously. Separate out reporting layer from apps. MySQL, Postgres, ClickHouse.

1.2K starsMay 14, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add zerodha/dungbeetle
#16

Scenic

Similarity 128Trust 84Excellent 89

Versioned database views for Rails

3.6K starsNov 14, 2025 pushdata-analysisRubySQL
$ npx skills add scenic-views/scenic

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