Alternatives

Duckdb alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Duckdb

DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system

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#1

Risinglight

Similarity 150Trust 84Excellent 86

An educational OLAP database system.

1.8K starsAug 10, 2025 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add risinglightdb/risinglight
#2

Duckdb Wasm

Similarity 143Trust 85Excellent 100

WebAssembly version of DuckDB

2.0K starsMay 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb-wasm
#3

BaikalDB

Similarity 143Trust 89Excellent 100

BaikalDB, A Distributed HTAP Database.

1.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add baidu/BaikalDB
#4

Turso

Similarity 143Trust 92Excellent 100

Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite.

20K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add tursodatabase/turso
#5

ClickHouse

Similarity 141Trust 92Excellent 100

ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system

48K starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add ClickHouse/ClickHouse
#6

Osquery

Similarity 140Trust 88Excellent 100

SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.

23K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add osquery/osquery
#7

Hyrise

Similarity 139Trust 82Excellent 87

Hyrise is a research in-memory database.

867 starsJun 17, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add hyrise/hyrise
#8

Chai

Similarity 136Trust 86Excellent 94

Modern embedded SQL database

1.7K starsJan 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add chaisql/chai
#9

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
#10

Timescaledb

Similarity 134Trust 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
#11

Trino

Similarity 134Trust 94Excellent 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

Mysql

Similarity 134Trust 92Excellent 100

Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package

15K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisGoSQL
$ npx skills add go-sql-driver/mysql
#13

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
#14

Otterbrix

Similarity 133Trust 79Strong 78

Otterbrix: computation framework for Semi-structured data processing

128 starsJun 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add otterbrix/otterbrix
#15

Duckdb Java

Similarity 133Trust 80Strong 78

DuckDB JDBC Driver

113 starsJun 18, 2026 pushdata-analysisC++SQL
$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb-java
#16

Paradedb

Similarity 133Trust 90Excellent 100

Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres

8.9K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisRustSQL
$ npx skills add paradedb/paradedb

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