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The Fastest Distributed Database for Transactional, Analytical, and AI Workloads.
10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbaseAlternatives
Crate alternatives for AI agents.
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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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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.
7.9K starsJul 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add MariaDB/server#3
Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. โ rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
9.4K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend#4
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
22K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#5
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
30K starsAug 23, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee#6
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm#7
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/
33K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant#8
๐ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex#9
๐ Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#10
Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.
9.2K starsMay 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add activeloopai/deeplake#11
๐ 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 starsJun 30, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama#12
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch#13
๐ฆ Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
21K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonic#14
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#15
Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.
11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb#16
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
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