Alternatives

Vespa alternatives for AI agents.

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

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The AI search platform

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#1

OpenSearch

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 100

๐Ÿ”Ž Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch
#2

Lucene

Similarity 130Trust 86Excellent 98

Apache Lucene open-source search software

3.5K starsAug 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/lucene
#3

Solr

Similarity 129Trust 86Excellent 100

Apache Solr open-source search software

1.7K starsSep 10, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr
#4

Cognee

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

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 23, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#5

PageIndex

Similarity 126Trust 86Excellent 100

๐Ÿ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#6

Elasticsearch

Similarity 126Trust 84Excellent 100

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch
#7

Deeplake

Similarity 124Trust 86Excellent 99

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

Orama

Similarity 123Trust 82Excellent 96

๐ŸŒŒ 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
#9

Databend

Similarity 123Trust 84Excellent 94

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

9.4K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add databendlabs/databend
#10

Sonic

Similarity 120Trust 87Excellent 100

๐Ÿฆ” 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
#11

Quickwit

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 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
#12

Anything Llm

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

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
#13

Qdrant

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 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 starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant
#14

Lancedb

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

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

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

Oceanbase

Similarity 115Trust 84Excellent 96

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

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add oceanbase/oceanbase
#16

Searxng

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 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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