Alternatives

Crate alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Crate

CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.

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#1

Oceanbase

Similarity 143Trust 100Excellent 100

The Fastest Distributed Database for Transactional, Analytical, and AI Workloads.

10K starsJun 7, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase
#2

Vespa

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

The AI search platform

7.0K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search
$ npx skills add vespa-engine/vespa
#3

Matrixone

Similarity 132Trust 100Excellent 100

AI-native HTAP database with Git-for-Data and built-in vector search, serving as the data and memory backbone for intelligent agents and applications.

1.8K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoVector Search
$ npx skills add matrixorigin/matrixone
#4

Milvus

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

45K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoVector Search
$ npx skills add milvus-io/milvus
#5

Databend

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

9.3K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend
#6

Server

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.

7.7K starsJun 7, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add MariaDB/server
#7

Pixeltable

Similarity 123Trust 100Excellent 100

Declarative and Incremental Backend for Multimodal AI Applications

1.6K starsJun 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add pixeltable/pixeltable
#8

Dingo

Similarity 122Trust 100Excellent 100

A multi-modal vector database that supports upserts and vector queries using unified SQL (MySQL-Compatible) on structured and unstructured data, while meeting the requirements of high concurrency and ultra-low latency.

1.7K starsMay 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search
$ npx skills add dingodb/dingo
#9

PageIndex

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

33K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#10

Qdrant

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

32K starsJun 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant
#11

RAG Techniques

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.

28K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookVector Search
$ npx skills add NirDiamant/RAG_Techniques
#12

Cognee

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

Memory platform for AI Agents in 6 lines of code

18K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#13

Txtai

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#14

LEANN

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

12K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add StarTrail-org/LEANN
#15

Lancedb

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLVector Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb
#16

Orama

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 98

🌌 A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.

10K starsFeb 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama

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