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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
Databend alternatives for AI agents.
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Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.
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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 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee#3
📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex#4
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#5
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#6
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#7
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#8
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#9
🦔 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#10
Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.
16K starsMay 27, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add memvid/memvid#11
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#12
Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!
10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add cocoindex-io/cocoindex#13
🌌 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#14
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI
112K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners#15
Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚡ 🔍 ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences
26K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add typesense/typesense#16
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
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Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Databend if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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