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Cognee alternatives for AI agents.

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Cognee

Memory platform for AI Agents in 6 lines of code

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#1

PageIndex

Similarity 151Trust 100Excellent 100

πŸ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

33K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#2

Txtai

Similarity 141Trust 100Excellent 100

πŸ’‘ All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#3

LEANN

Similarity 133Trust 100Excellent 100

[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

12K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add StarTrail-org/LEANN
#4

Pixeltable

Similarity 129Trust 100Excellent 100

Declarative and Incremental Backend for Multimodal AI Applications

1.6K starsJun 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add pixeltable/pixeltable
#5

RAG Techniques

Similarity 128Trust 100Excellent 100

This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.

28K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookVector Search
$ npx skills add NirDiamant/RAG_Techniques
#6

Databend

Similarity 127Trust 100Excellent 100

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

9.3K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend
#7

Vespa

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

The AI search platform

7.0K starsJun 6, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search
$ npx skills add vespa-engine/vespa
#8

Genkit

Similarity 126Trust 100Excellent 100

Open-source framework for building AI-powered apps in JavaScript, Go, and Python, built and used in production by Google

6.1K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add genkit-ai/genkit
#9

Milvus

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

45K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoVector Search
$ npx skills add milvus-io/milvus
#10

Khoj

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 100

Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

35K starsMar 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj
#11

Qdrant

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 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/

32K starsJun 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant
#12

Pymilvus

Similarity 121Trust 100Excellent 97

Python SDK for Milvus Vector Database

1.4K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add milvus-io/pymilvus
#13

DocsGPT

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

18K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add arc53/DocsGPT
#14

Lancedb

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

11K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLVector Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb
#15

Oceanbase

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

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

10K starsJun 7, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase
#16

Examples

Similarity 119Trust 100Excellent 100

Jupyter Notebooks to help you get hands-on with Pinecone vector databases

3.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add pinecone-io/examples

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