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High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios
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PolarDB For PostgreSQL
A cloud-native database based on PostgreSQL developed by Alibaba Cloud.
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$ npx skills add paradedb/paradedb#6
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$ npx skills add duckdb/duckdb#10
ORM
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$ npx skills add drizzle-team/drizzle-orm#11
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$ npx skills add cockroachdb/cockroach#12
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REST API for any Postgres database
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$ npx skills add tursodatabase/turso#16
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