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Nodedb alternatives for AI agents.

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Nodedb

Document, columnar, KV, Graph, Vector, Array - The only all-in-one database that you need.

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#1

Sonic

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

🦔 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
#2

Dgraph

Similarity 120Trust 90Excellent 100

high-performance graph database for real-time use cases

22K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph
#3

Meilisearch

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

58K starsJul 2, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch
#4

Databend

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

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

9.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend
#5

Logseq

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV

44K starsJun 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeClojureKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add logseq/logseq
#6

LightRAG

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#7

Qdrant

Similarity 111Trust 92Excellent 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/

33K starsJun 30, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant
#8

Manticoresearch

Similarity 111Trust 90Excellent 100

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
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
#9

Oceanbase

Similarity 111Trust 89Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase
#10

Server

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 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 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add MariaDB/server
#11

Tantivy

Similarity 110Trust 93Excellent 100

Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy
#12

Vespa

Similarity 110Trust 89Excellent 100

The AI search platform

7.0K starsJun 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search
$ npx skills add vespa-engine/vespa
#13

Memvid

Similarity 110Trust 92Excellent 100

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
#14

Quickwit

Similarity 110Trust 93Excellent 100

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

Cocoindex

Similarity 109Trust 91Excellent 100

Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add cocoindex-io/cocoindex
#16

Searxng

Similarity 106Trust 93Excellent 100

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng

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