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TypeScript
72%
AGPL 3.0
52

APITable

Low Code Platforms · Databases

15,403

API-first collaborative spreadsheet-database platform that auto-generates REST APIs and lets teams build internal tools, CRMs, and dashboards without code.

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APITable

AGPL 3.0
1,410
Forks
3.9 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript72%
Java22%
Updated 8 months ago
JavaScript
93%
MIT
52

Another Redis Desktop Manager

Developer Tools · Databases

34,496

Fast, stable Redis GUI with cluster, SSH, and massive key support

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Another Redis Desktop Manager

MIT
2,715
Forks
7.5 years
Age
Built with
JavaScript93%
Updated 8 months ago
TypeScript
60%
BSD 3
92

Appwrite

Developer Tools · Databases · Authentication

56,480

Open-source backend platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Realtime, and Sites — deploy via Docker or use Appwrite Cloud.

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Appwrite

BSD 3
5,520
Forks
7.2 years
Age
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TypeScript60%
PHP39%
Updated yesterday
Python
69%
Other
86

Baserow

No Code Platforms · Databases

5,240

Open-source no-code platform to build databases, apps, automations, and AI agents — self-hosted or cloud, with full data ownership.

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Baserow

Other
654
Forks
6 years
Age
Built with
Python69%
JavaScript14%
Vue12%
Updated 2 days ago
JavaScript
99%
Other
91

ChartBrew

Analytics · Databases

3,952

Open-source reporting platform to build live dashboards from SQL, NoSQL, APIs, and SaaS tools with an AI assistant that creates charts from natural language.

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ChartBrew

Other
442
Forks
6.9 years
Age
Built with
JavaScript99%
Updated 2 days ago
C++
70%
Apache 2.0
95

ClickHouse

Databases · Analytics · Data Engineering

48,457

Open-source column-oriented database that delivers real-time analytical queries on petabyte-scale data with millisecond latency.

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ClickHouse

Apache 2.0
8,606
Forks
10.1 years
Age
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C++70%
Python12%
Updated yesterday
TypeScript
44%
Other
87

Convex Backend

Developer Tools · Databases

12,084

Open-source reactive database that lets developers build live-updating apps with pure TypeScript, strong consistency, and real-time subscriptions—no separate API layer required.

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Convex Backend

Other
754
Forks
2.3 years
Age
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TypeScript44%
Rust43%
Updated 2 days ago
Java
100%
Apache 2.0
95

CrateDB

Databases · Analytics

4,414

Distributed SQL database for real-time analytics at scale

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CrateDB

Apache 2.0
603
Forks
13.2 years
Age
Built with
Java100%
Updated 3 days ago
Other
66

Databend

Databases · Data Engineering

9,374

Open-source enterprise data warehouse unifying analytics, vector search, full-text search, and AI agent orchestration in a single Rust-built engine on S3.

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Databend

Other
891
Forks
5.7 years
Age
Updated yesterday
Go
79%
Apache 2.0
90

Dolt

Databases · Data Engineering · Developer Tools

23,767

The SQL database you can branch, merge, diff, and clone — Git for your data, MySQL-compatible and ready for multi-agent AI workflows.

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Dolt

Apache 2.0
822
Forks
7 years
Age
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Go79%
Shell20%
Updated 2 days ago
C++
74%
Other
90

Dragonfly

Databases · Developer Tools · Devops

30,819

A modern Redis and Memcached replacement engineered for multi-core servers — delivering 25x more throughput, better cache hit rates, and up to 80% lower memory consumption with full API compatibility.

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Dragonfly

Other
1,200
Forks
4.6 years
Age
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C++74%
Python16%
Updated 2 days ago
JavaScript
99%
AGPL 3.0
76

drawDB

Databases

37,943

Design database schemas visually in your browser and export executable SQL for any major database — no account required.

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drawDB

AGPL 3.0
3,074
Forks
3 years
Age
Built with
JavaScript99%
Updated 3 days ago
Go
91%
Apache 2.0
61

FerretDB

Databases

10,990

An open-source MongoDB alternative that translates wire protocol queries to SQL and stores documents in PostgreSQL

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FerretDB

Apache 2.0
479
Forks
4.7 years
Age
Built with
Go91%
Updated 1 months ago
Rust
99%
Other
88

Fluree DB

Databases

419

A temporal, verifiable graph database with git-like branching, integrated vector/text/geo search, and RDF/SPARQL/JSON-LD/openCypher support — benchmarked at 10.4x faster than the next database on the full Wikidata dump.

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Fluree DB

Other
33
Forks
5.7 years
Age
Built with
Rust99%
Updated yesterday
TypeScript
83%
Apache 2.0
91

Grist

Databases · No Code Platforms

11,235

A modern relational spreadsheet that combines Python-powered formulas, drag-and-drop dashboards, and granular access controls in a self-hostable, SQLite-backed data platform.

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Grist

Apache 2.0
595
Forks
6.1 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript83%
Python11%
Updated yesterday
Rust
67%
Apache 2.0
83

helix-db

Databases

5,557

A graph-vector database built from scratch in Rust that unifies graph traversal, vector search, key-value, and relational storage into a single platform for AI applications.

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helix-db

Apache 2.0
308
Forks
1.6 years
Age
Built with
Rust67%
TypeScript14%
Python10%
Updated 4 days ago
Rust
96%
Apache 2.0
86

InfluxDB

Databases · Analytics

31,608

Open-source time-series database built for real-time ingest, fast SQL queries, and embedded Python automation — powered by Apache Arrow and Parquet.

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InfluxDB

Apache 2.0
3,716
Forks
12.8 years
Age
Built with
Rust96%
Updated 4 days ago
TypeScript
94%
Apache 2.0
86

InsForge

Developer Tools · Databases

12,050

The all-in-one, open-source backend platform purpose-built for AI coding agents — giving your agent database, auth, storage, edge functions, a model gateway, and compute to ship full-stack apps end-to-end.

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InsForge

Apache 2.0
1,036
Forks
11 months
Age
Built with
TypeScript94%
Updated yesterday
HTML
35%
Apache 2.0
90

LanceDB

Databases · AI Development

10,796

Open-source, embedded vector database built on the Lance columnar format for fast multimodal search across billions of vectors, backed by Y Combinator (W23).

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LanceDB

Apache 2.0
935
Forks
3.4 years
Age
Built with
HTML35%
Rust33%
Python24%
Updated 2 days ago
Go
96%
MIT
87

Formance Ledger

Invoicing Finance · Developer Tools · Databases

1,289

The programmable open source core ledger for fintech — build money-moving applications with atomic multi-posting transactions, account-based modeling, and Numscript, a built-in DSL for financial logic.

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Formance Ledger

MIT
169
Forks
5.1 years
Age
Built with
Go96%
Updated 3 days ago
Svelte
32%
GPL 3.0
87

Mathesar

Databases

5,029

Spreadsheet-like interface for your PostgreSQL database — self-hosted, no SQL required, native Postgres access control.

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Mathesar

GPL 3.0
479
Forks
5.3 years
Age
Built with
Svelte32%
TypeScript27%
Python21%
Updated 2 days ago
Ruby
70%
AGPL 3.0
52

Maybe

Databases · Invoicing Finance · Authentication

54,301

Self-hostable personal finance app that gives you full ownership of your financial data with a clean, minimal Rails-powered interface.

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Maybe

AGPL 3.0
5,639
Forks
2.5 years
Age
Built with
Ruby70%
HTML23%
Updated 11 months ago
TypeScript
88%
Apache 2.0
92

Medplum

Developer Tools · Databases · Authentication

2,506

An open-source, FHIR-native healthcare platform that gives developers a compliant backend, authentication, a React component library, and serverless bots to build clinical applications in weeks instead of years.

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Medplum

Apache 2.0
838
Forks
5.2 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript88%
MDX11%
Updated 2 days ago
C++
66%
Other
89

Memgraph

Databases · AI Development

4,214

High-performance in-memory graph database for AI context and real-time analytics

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Memgraph

Other
246
Forks
5.8 years
Age
Built with
C++66%
Python18%
Updated 3 days ago
Python
67%
Other
62

Morphik

AI Development · Search · Databases

3,624

Morphik is an AI-native ingestion and retrieval engine that lets developers store, search, and reason over visually rich documents — scanned PDFs, manuals, slides, and video — without duct-taping together OCR, an embedding model, and a vector database.

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Morphik

Other
309
Forks
1.7 years
Age
Built with
Python67%
TypeScript25%
Updated 2 days ago
Rust
91%
Apache 2.0
78

Murr

Databases

107

A RocksDB-based NVMe/S3 cache purpose-built for AI inference workloads — a faster Redis replacement optimized for batch, low-latency, zero-copy reads and writes between data pipelines and inference apps.

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Murr

Apache 2.0
6
Forks
6 months
Age
Built with
Rust91%
Updated 2 weeks ago
TypeScript
63%
Other
91

NocoDB

No Code Platforms · Databases · Low Code Platforms

63,733

Turn any SQL database into a collaborative no-code spreadsheet with automatic REST APIs and real-time views.

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NocoDB

Other
4,882
Forks
8.7 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript63%
Vue31%
Updated 2 days ago
Go
91%
MIT
77

NornicDB

Databases · AI Development

823

A single graph+vector+temporal database for AI workloads — Neo4j-compatible, sub-millisecond hybrid search, and built-in memory decay.

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NornicDB

MIT
45
Forks
7 months
Age
Built with
Go91%
Updated 4 days ago
Python
100%
Other
88

OpenBB

Databases · Analytics · Invoicing Finance

70,042

The AI Workspace for Finance: Connect Data, Run AI Agents, Build Analytics

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OpenBB

Other
7,084
Forks
5.5 years
Age
Built with
Python100%
Updated 2 days ago
C++
43%
MIT
53

openduck

Databases · Data Engineering

557

OpenDuck brings MotherDuck-style cloud capabilities to self-hosted DuckDB — attach remote databases, run hybrid queries across local and remote nodes, and own your data with an open gRPC and Arrow IPC protocol.

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openduck

MIT
26
Forks
3 months
Age
Built with
C++43%
Rust38%
HTML13%
Updated 2 months ago
Python
75%
AGPL 3.0
83

OpenViking

Databases · AI Development

26,320

An open-source context database that gives AI agents a unified filesystem for memory, resources, and skills with hierarchical tiered retrieval.

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OpenViking

AGPL 3.0
2,046
Forks
6 months
Age
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Python75%
Rust14%
Updated yesterday
Rust
87%
AGPL 3.0
88

ParadeDB

Search · Databases · Analytics

8,992

Born out of Y Combinator's S2023 batch, ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that delivers Elasticsearch-quality BM25 search and real-time analytics without a separate search cluster to manage.

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ParadeDB

AGPL 3.0
413
Forks
3 years
Age
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Rust87%
PLpgSQL12%
Updated yesterday
JavaScript
98%
Apache 2.0
97

Parse Server

Developer Tools · Databases

21,406

Self-hosted Backend-as-a-Service for Node.js with REST, GraphQL, real-time Live Query, cloud code, and pluggable adapters for any infrastructure.

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Parse Server

Apache 2.0
4,819
Forks
10.4 years
Age
Built with
JavaScript98%
Updated 5 days ago
Go
78%
AGPL 3.0
87

PeerDB

Data Engineering · Databases

3,191

Postgres-native ETL that streams change data capture in real time to Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, S3, and Kafka — up to 10x faster than general-purpose pipelines, managed through a familiar Postgres SQL interface.

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PeerDB

AGPL 3.0
198
Forks
3.2 years
Age
Built with
Go78%
TypeScript14%
Updated 3 days ago
Go
69%
MIT
89

PocketBase

Databases · Ecommerce · Authentication

59,420

Open Source realtime backend in 1 file — embedded SQLite, auth, file storage, and admin UI as a single Go binary.

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PocketBase

MIT
3,495
Forks
4 years
Age
Built with
Go69%
JavaScript25%
Updated 1 weeks ago
Rust
63%
MIT
51

PostgresML

Databases · AI Development

6,806

Run ML training and LLM inference natively inside PostgreSQL with GPU acceleration — no data movement required.

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PostgresML

MIT
364
Forks
4.2 years
Age
Built with
Rust63%
JavaScript11%
Updated 1 years ago
Rust
87%
Apache 2.0
92

Qdrant

Databases · AI Development · Search

32,942

Open-source vector database and search engine built in Rust for production-grade AI applications — from semantic search to RAG pipelines and recommendation systems.

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Qdrant

Apache 2.0
2,455
Forks
6.1 years
Age
Built with
Rust87%
Python12%
Updated 2 days ago
Java
91%
Apache 2.0
91

QuestDB

Databases · Analytics

17,160

A high-performance, open-source time-series database built for financial market data, IoT telemetry, and real-time analytics, combining a zero-GC Java/C++ core with SIMD-accelerated SQL and a WAL-to-Parquet storage engine.

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QuestDB

Apache 2.0
1,619
Forks
12.2 years
Age
Built with
Java91%
Updated yesterday
TypeScript
99%
Other
45

Rowy

Low Code Platforms · Databases

6,819

Manage Firestore data in an Airtable-like spreadsheet UI and build Cloud Functions workflows directly in your browser—on your own GCP project.

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Rowy

Other
551
Forks
6.8 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript99%
Updated 1 years ago
Rust
80%
Apache 2.0
87

SlateDB

Databases · Developer Tools

3,185

Embedded KV store built on object storage with zero replication cost

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SlateDB

Apache 2.0
256
Forks
2.3 years
Age
Built with
Rust80%
Updated 3 days ago
Rust
96%
MPL 2.0
85

Sonic

Databases · Search

21,268

Fast, lightweight, schema-less search backend in Rust — microsecond queries, 30MB RAM, no document storage required.

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Sonic

MPL 2.0
616
Forks
7.4 years
Age
Built with
Rust96%
Updated 3 days ago
Go
100%
Apache 2.0
89

SpiceDB

Security · Authentication · Databases

6,832

An open source, Google Zanzibar-inspired authorization database that models permissions as relationships and evaluates fine-grained access checks at massive scale with single-digit millisecond latency.

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SpiceDB

Apache 2.0
402
Forks
4.9 years
Age
Built with
Go100%
Updated 3 days ago
TypeScript
71%
Apache 2.0
90

Supabase

Developer Tools · Databases · Search

105,714

The open-source Postgres development platform that replaces Firebase with authentication, real-time APIs, edge functions, storage, and vector embeddings — all built on PostgreSQL.

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Supabase

Apache 2.0
12,992
Forks
6.7 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript71%
MDX27%
Updated yesterday
Python
94%
Apache 2.0
87

SWIRL

Search · Databases · Data Engineering

3,030

Federated AI search and RAG across 100+ enterprise sources—no data extraction, no vector database required.

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SWIRL

Apache 2.0
285
Forks
4.2 years
Age
Built with
Python94%
Updated 1 weeks ago
C
82%
AGPL 3.0
98

TDengine

Databases

24,953

A high-performance, open-source time-series database built in C for IoT, connected vehicles, and industrial monitoring workloads, with built-in stream processing, caching, and data subscription.

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TDengine

AGPL 3.0
5,012
Forks
7 years
Age
Built with
C82%
C++13%
Updated 2 days ago
TypeScript
99%
Other
77

Teable

Databases · No Code Platforms

21,428

A no-code PostgreSQL database with spreadsheet UX, real-time collaboration, and native AI agents — built for teams that outgrow Airtable.

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Teable

Other
1,295
Forks
3.7 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript99%
Updated yesterday
Go
95%
Apache 2.0
96

TiDB

Databases · AI Development

40,252

AI-Native Distributed SQL Database for Agentic Workloads

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TiDB

Apache 2.0
6,218
Forks
10.8 years
Age
Built with
Go95%
Updated 3 days ago
TypeScript
63%
AGPL 3.0
47

undb

No Code Platforms · Databases

2,955

Self-hosted no-code database and BaaS that lets you manage structured data visually with multi-database support, formula fields, and auto-generated OpenAPI endpoints.

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undb

AGPL 3.0
154
Forks
3.6 years
Age
Built with
TypeScript63%
Svelte35%
Updated 11 months ago
Go
96%
BSD 3
91

Weaviate

Databases · Search

16,500

Open-source vector database combining semantic search, hybrid queries, RAG, and image search in a single cloud-native system built for production scale.

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Weaviate

BSD 3
1,334
Forks
10.3 years
Age
Built with
Go96%
Updated yesterday

About Databases

Databases are fundamental to nearly all modern software applications, acting as the organized storage for information that powers dynamic functionality. These systems allow developers to store, manage, and retrieve data efficiently, ensuring data integrity and consistency.

Typical features found in open source database solutions include:

  • Data Modeling: Tools to define the structure of data, including tables, relationships, and constraints.
  • Query Languages: Powerful languages (often based on SQL) for retrieving, inserting, updating, and deleting data.
  • Indexing: Mechanisms to speed up data retrieval by creating efficient lookup paths.
  • Transaction Management: Ensuring that data operations are reliable, even in the face of errors or concurrent access.
  • Security Features: Controlling access to data and protecting it from unauthorized modification or deletion.
  • Replication & Backup: Maintaining data availability and resilience through redundancy and recovery options.

Open source databases are critical for a range of applications, including web application backends, data analytics platforms, content management systems, and scientific research. They solve problems related to data persistence, scalability, performance, and reliability. Choosing an open source database offers benefits such as cost savings, community support, flexibility, and the ability to customize the system to specific needs. They allow developers complete control over their data environment.

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