Open-source database software
1840 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged database, ranked by how closely database is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1840 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redis Redis is an open-source, in-memory data platform that provides fast key‑value storage, caching, and advanced data structures. It also inclu… | 92 | 76478 | active |
| PocketBase PocketBase is an open‑source backend written in Go that runs as a single executable. It provides an embedded SQLite database with realtime … | 92 | 61149 | active |
| Appwrite Appwrite is an open‑source backend‑as‑a‑service platform that provides authentication, databases, storage, functions, messaging, realtime a… | 98 | 57584 | active |
| FuelLabs/fuel-core fuel-core is the Rust full node implementation of the Fuel v2 blockchain protocol, aggregating all Fuel services and business logic into a … | 97 | 56803 | active |
| etcd etcd is a distributed, strongly consistent key‑value store that uses the Raft consensus algorithm. It provides a reliable API (gRPC/HTTP) f… | 98 | 52353 | stable |
| dbeaver/dbeaver DBeaver is a free, open‑source universal database management tool with a graphical UI. It supports hundreds of databases via JDBC/ODBC and … | 99 | 52011 | active |
| ClickHouse ClickHouse is an open-source column‑oriented OLAP database management system designed for real‑time analytics on massive datasets. It provi… | 96 | 50464 | active |
| DuckDB DuckDB is a high‑performance, in‑process analytical SQL database written in C++. It provides a rich SQL dialect, supports many file formats… | 94 | 42114 | active |
| TiDB TiDB is an open‑source, cloud‑native distributed SQL database with strong ACID guarantees. It supports hybrid transactional/analytical proc… | 96 | 40589 | active |
| GORM GORM is a full-featured, developer-friendly ORM library for Go that maps Go structs to database tables. It supports associations, transacti… | 91 | 39978 | stable |
| drawDB drawDB is a free, browser-based database entity relationship diagram (ERD) editor with SQL generation and import/export. It supports multip… | 74 | 39908 | active |
| Polars Polars is an extremely fast analytical query engine for DataFrames written in Rust, with multi-threaded vectorized execution, lazy query op… | 92 | 39857 | stable |
| volcengine/OpenViking OpenViking is an open-source context database designed for AI agents. It provides a virtual filesystem interface for storing, retrieving, a… | 77 | 39101 | active |
| sqlmap sqlmap is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates the detection and exploitation of SQL injection flaws and the takeover of … | 72 | 38549 | stable |
| Directus Directus is an open‑source, TypeScript‑based backend that turns any SQL database into a headless CMS with instant REST and GraphQL APIs. It… | 99 | 38413 | active |
| TypeORM TypeORM is a TypeScript-first object-relational mapper for Node.js and other JavaScript platforms, supporting both Active Record and Data M… | 92 | 36655 | stable |
| Drizzle ORM Drizzle ORM is a lightweight, headless TypeScript ORM for SQL databases with zero dependencies and full type safety. It supports PostgreSQL… | 95 | 36001 | active |
| SeaweedFS SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system written in Go that provides S3-compatible object storage, a POSIX-compliant distributed file… | 95 | 35551 | active |
| qishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager A fast, stable, cross-platform Redis desktop GUI client for browsing and managing Redis databases. It handles massive key loads without cra… | 88 | 34785 | stable |
| SurrealDB SurrealDB is a scalable, distributed, multi‑model database that combines document, graph, relational and vector storage in a single ACID en… | 93 | 33087 | active |
| SurrealDB SurrealDB is a multi-model database written in Rust that combines document, graph, vector, and relational data models in a single ACID engi… | 93 | 33087 | stable |
| CockroachDB CockroachDB is a cloud-native distributed SQL database built on a transactional, strongly-consistent key-value store, written in Go. It sca… | 76 | 32555 | stable |
| facebook/rocksdb RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store library written in C++, based on LevelDB and maintained by Meta's Database Engineering … | 96 | 32197 | stable |
| Dragonfly Dragonfly is a modern, multi‑threaded in‑memory data store that implements the Redis and Memcached APIs. It provides a drop‑in replacement … | 99 | 31779 | active |
| Dragonfly Dragonfly is a modern in-memory data store that is fully API-compatible with Redis and Memcached, built on a multi-threaded, shared-nothing… | 99 | 31779 | active |
| influxdata/influxdb InfluxDB 3 Core is an open‑source time‑series database built for real‑time ingest and fast query response. It stores data in Apache Parquet… | 100 | 31765 | active |
| Chroma Chroma is an open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications, supporting dense vector, sparse (BM25/SPLADE), full-text, regex… | 87 | 29471 | active |
| mongodb/mongo MongoDB is a high‑performance, document‑oriented NoSQL database that stores JSON‑like documents. It provides a flexible schema, built‑in re… | 77 | 28650 | active |
| OtterMind/Chat2DB Chat2DB is a free, cross‑platform database client that provides a full‑featured SQL workspace with AI assistance. It runs locally on Window… | 94 | 28185 | active |
| PostgREST PostgREST is a standalone web server that automatically exposes any existing PostgreSQL database as a fully RESTful HTTP API. Written in Ha… | 98 | 27693 | stable |
| Valkey Valkey is a high‑performance, in‑memory key‑value datastore that can be used as a cache, primary database, or message broker. It is fully o… | 90 | 27352 | active |
| Valkey Valkey is an open-source (BSD-3-Clause), high-performance in-memory key-value data structure server forked from Redis before its license ch… | 90 | 27352 | stable |
| t8y2/dbx DBX is a 25 MB cross‑platform database client written in Rust. It provides a GUI, CLI, Docker image and a built‑in AI assistant for managin… | 78 | 27137 | active |
| rethinkdb/rethinkdb RethinkDB is an open‑source, distributed NoSQL database that stores schemaless JSON documents. It provides real‑time changefeeds that push … | 52 | 27002 | active |
| Apache Seata Apache Seata (incubating) is an open-source, high-performance distributed transaction solution for microservices architectures. It provides… | 77 | 26008 | stable |
| SpacetimeDB SpacetimeDB is a reactive, serverless backend platform that combines a relational database, authentication, real‑time sync and deployment i… | 96 | 25273 | active |
| SpacetimeDB SpacetimeDB is a relational database with embedded server-side logic (reducers), real-time client sync, auth, and deployment built into a s… | 96 | 25273 | active |
| TDengine TDengine is an open‑source, high‑performance time‑series database built for industrial IoT and large‑scale sensor data. It provides built‑i… | 90 | 25149 | active |
| TDengine TDengine is an open-source, cloud-native time-series database (TSDB) written in C, purpose-built for IoT, connected vehicles, industrial Io… | 90 | 25149 | active |
| Firefly III Firefly III is a free, open‑source personal finance manager written in PHP. It runs as a self‑hosted web application and provides budgeting… | 95 | 24886 | active |
| Turso Database Turso is a lightweight, SQLite‑compatible database that can run embedded on devices or as a fully managed cloud service. It adds modern fea… | 96 | 24810 | active |
| Turso Database Turso is an in-process SQL database written in Rust that is compatible with SQLite and experimentally supports a Postgres frontend. Like SQ… | 96 | 24810 | active |
| Dolt Dolt is a SQL database that adds Git‑style version control to tables and schemas. It provides a MySQL‑compatible server and a Git‑like comm… | 95 | 24652 | active |
| Dolt Dolt is a version-controlled SQL database that lets you branch, merge, clone, push, and pull data like a Git repository. It exposes a MySQL… | 95 | 24652 | active |
| sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser DB Browser for SQLite is a visual, open‑source GUI application for creating, designing, and editing SQLite database files. It provides spre… | 85 | 24637 | active |
| timescale/timescaledb TimescaleDB is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that adds native time‑series capabilities and high‑performance analytics. It provides au… | 98 | 23629 | active |
| osquery/osquery osquery is a SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework that exposes OS data as a high-performance r… | 88 | 23587 | active |
| pubkey/rxdb RxDB is a fast, reactive NoSQL database written in TypeScript for JavaScript applications. It stores data locally and synchronizes with any… | 99 | 23411 | active |
| pgvector pgvector is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that adds vector data types and vector similarity search, supporting exact and approximate … | 76 | 23171 | active |
| Neon Serverless Postgres Neon is an open-source serverless PostgreSQL platform that separates storage and compute for autoscaling and instant branching. It can be r… | 71 | 23123 | active |
| Neon Serverless Postgres Neon is an open-source serverless Postgres platform that separates storage from compute by replacing PostgreSQL's storage layer with a dist… | 71 | 23123 | active |
| typicode/lowdb lowdb is a tiny, type-safe local JSON database for Node.js, Electron, and the browser. Data is stored as a plain JavaScript object in a JSO… | 52 | 22586 | stable |
| postgres/postgres PostgreSQL is an advanced open‑source object‑relational database management system. It provides ACID compliance, extensibility, and a rich … | 77 | 22443 | stable |
| teableio/teable Teable is an AI‑powered spreadsheet platform that stores data in real PostgreSQL while providing no‑code app building and AI agents. It can… | 93 | 21847 | active |
| Dgraph Dgraph is a horizontally scalable, distributed graph database that offers a native GraphQL API and ACID transactions. It is designed for re… | 97 | 21804 | active |
| Dgraph Dgraph is a distributed, horizontally scalable graph database with native GraphQL support, written in Go. It provides ACID transactions, co… | 97 | 21804 | stable |
| Vitess Vitess is a cloud‑native, horizontally‑scalable database clustering system built around MySQL. It provides transparent sharding, resharding… | 98 | 21365 | active |
| Vitess Vitess is a cloud-native database clustering system that horizontally scales MySQL through transparent, generalized sharding. It provides q… | 98 | 21365 | stable |
| valeriansaliou/sonic Sonic is a fast, lightweight, schema-less search backend written in Rust that ingests search texts and identifier tuples, returning matchin… | 97 | 21358 | stable |
| HikariCP HikariCP is a lightweight, high-performance JDBC connection pool for Java applications. It is a production-ready, 'zero-overhead' library w… | 68 | 21240 | stable |
| Apache ShardingSphere Apache ShardingSphere is an open‑source distributed database ecosystem that provides sharding, read/write splitting, encryption, and distri… | 77 | 20808 | active |
| Apache ShardingSphere Apache ShardingSphere is an enterprise distributed database ecosystem that turns heterogeneous databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) into a d… | 77 | 20808 | stable |
| mybatis/mybatis-3 MyBatis is a first-class SQL mapping persistence framework for Java that couples objects with SQL statements or stored procedures via XML d… | 77 | 20445 | stable |
| knex Knex.js is a batteries-included SQL query builder for JavaScript supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, CockroachDB, MSSQL, SQLite3, Oracle,… | 86 | 20336 | stable |
| lionsoul2014/ip2region ip2region is an offline IP-to-region localization library and IP data management framework supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 with city-level re… | 98 | 19713 | stable |
| amark/gun GUN is an open‑source, peer‑to‑peer graph database written in JavaScript. It provides real‑time, offline‑first data synchronization with bu… | 66 | 19140 | active |
| golang-migrate/migrate A database migration tool written in Go, usable both as a CLI and as an importable Go library. It reads migration files from various source… | 87 | 18970 | active |
| Tencent/MMKV MMKV is a high‑performance, small‑footprint key‑value storage library originally built for WeChat. It uses memory‑mapped files and protobuf… | 94 | 18754 | active |
| mysqljs/mysql mysqljs/mysql is a pure JavaScript MySQL client for Node.js. It implements the MySQL protocol without requiring any native compilation. | 32 | 18616 | active |
| DapperLib/Dapper Dapper is a lightweight micro-ORM for .NET that maps ADO.NET query results to strongly-typed objects. It lets developers execute raw SQL an… | 88 | 18396 | stable |
| fastapi/sqlmodel SQLModel is a Python library for interacting with SQL databases using Python objects, built as a thin layer on top of SQLAlchemy and Pydant… | 98 | 18386 | stable |
| sqlc sqlc is a command-line SQL compiler that generates fully type-safe, idiomatic code from SQL queries for languages like Go, Kotlin, Python, … | 80 | 18329 | stable |
| VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-effective, and scalable open-source time series database and monitoring solution written in Go. It supports… | 93 | 17800 | stable |
| rqlite rqlite is a lightweight, fault-tolerant distributed relational database built on SQLite, replicating data across nodes using the Raft conse… | 95 | 17789 | stable |
| jmoiron/sqlx sqlx is a Go library providing general-purpose extensions to the standard database/sql package. It adds struct/map scanning, named paramete… | 23 | 17737 | stable |
| apache/pouchdb Apache PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript document database inspired by Apache CouchDB that runs in the browser (via IndexedDB) and in No… | 66 | 17619 | active |
| transact-rs/sqlx SQLx is an async, pure Rust SQL toolkit providing database drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite. It features compile-time che… | 75 | 17515 | stable |
| MyBatis-Plus MyBatis-Plus is an enhancement toolkit for the MyBatis ORM framework on the JVM, providing out-of-the-box CRUD interfaces, conditional quer… | 89 | 17477 | stable |
| questdb/questdb QuestDB is an open-source, high-performance time-series database with a column-oriented, SIMD-vectorized SQL engine written in zero-GC Java… | 97 | 17440 | stable |
| alibaba/DataX DataX is Alibaba's open-source offline data synchronization framework, the open version of Alibaba Cloud DataWorks data integration. It syn… | 60 | 17364 | stable |
| Neo4j Neo4j is the leading open-source native graph database, storing and querying connected data as nodes and relationships using the Cypher que… | 66 | 17253 | stable |
| Turso Database libSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite maintained by Turso, adding features like vector search, concurrent writes, asyn… | 77 | 17247 | active |
| ent Ent is an entity framework (ORM) for Go that lets developers define database schemas as Go code and generates statically typed, explicit AP… | 77 | 17207 | stable |
| TigerBeetle TigerBeetle is a purpose-built financial transactions database written in Zig, designed for mission-critical safety and performance in onli… | 90 | 17185 | active |
| TiKV TiKV is an open-source, distributed, transactional key-value database written in Rust, using the Raft consensus algorithm and RocksDB for s… | 97 | 16890 | stable |
| Elysia Weaviate is an open-source, cloud-native vector database written in Go that stores both objects and vector embeddings, combining vector sim… | 94 | 16860 | stable |
| apple/foundationdb FoundationDB is an open-source distributed database from Apple that organizes data as an ordered key-value store with full ACID transaction… | 86 | 16774 | stable |
| Presto Presto is a distributed SQL query engine for running interactive queries against large datasets across heterogeneous data sources such as H… | 97 | 16757 | stable |
| MCP Toolbox for Databases MCP Toolbox for Databases is an open source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, written in Go, that connects AI agents, IDEs, and applicat… | 92 | 16669 | active |
| electric-sql/pglite PGlite is a WASM build of PostgreSQL packaged as a TypeScript client library that runs a full Postgres database in the browser, Node.js, Bu… | 89 | 16142 | active |
| Apache Doris Apache Doris is an open-source MPP-based real-time analytical database that delivers sub-second queries over massive datasets, combining a … | 98 | 16078 | stable |
| scylladb/scylladb ScyllaDB is an open-source, high-performance NoSQL wide-column data store built in C++ on the shared-nothing Seastar framework. It is API-c… | 76 | 15784 | stable |
| dgraph-io/badger BadgerDB is an embeddable, persistent, and fast key-value database written in pure Go, serving as the storage engine for Dgraph. It is desi… | 96 | 15782 | stable |
| go-sql-driver/mysql Go-MySQL-Driver is a lightweight, pure-Go MySQL driver for Go's database/sql package, also compatible with MariaDB. It supports TCP/IPv4, T… | 93 | 15274 | stable |
| dotnet/efcore Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is Microsoft's modern object-database mapper for .NET, supporting LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, a… | 97 | 14796 | stable |
| dexie/Dexie.js Dexie.js is a minimalistic, high-performance TypeScript wrapper library for IndexedDB, the standard database built into browsers. It provid… | 93 | 14633 | stable |
| bytebase/bytebase Bytebase is an open-source database governance platform that acts as a control plane between users (humans and AI agents) and databases, co… | 99 | 14606 | active |
| benbjohnson/litestream Litestream is a standalone disaster recovery tool for SQLite that runs as a background process and continuously streams database changes to… | 97 | 14456 | active |
| jackc/pgx pgx is a pure Go PostgreSQL driver and toolkit offering a low-level, high-performance interface with PostgreSQL-specific features like LIST… | 87 | 14330 | stable |
| memcached/memcached Memcached is a high-performance, multithreaded, distributed in-memory key-value cache store used to speed up dynamic web applications by al… | 75 | 14285 | stable |
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