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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XiaoMi/soar SOAR (SQL Optimizer And Rewriter) is a command-line tool from Xiaomi's database team that automatically optimizes and rewrites SQL statemen… | 23 | 8761 | maintenance |
| Netflix/EVCache EVCache is a distributed in-memory key-value caching library built on memcached and spymemcached, designed primarily for AWS EC2 cloud infr… | 93 | 2224 | stable |
| Apache Fluss Apache Fluss is a lakehouse-native streaming storage built for real-time analytics and AI, serving as the real-time data layer for Lakehous… | 80 | 2216 | active |
| sequelize/umzug Umzug is a framework-agnostic migration tool for Node.js that provides a clean programmatic and CLI API for running and rolling back migrat… | 78 | 2214 | stable |
| moshowgame/SpringBootCodeGenerator A web-based Java code generator ('Big Wolf Dog Code Generator') built on Spring Boot 3 and Freemarker that turns DDL SQL, INSERT/SELECT SQL… | 65 | 2209 | active |
| OdyseeTeam/chainquery Chainquery is a Go daemon and API server that parses the LBRY blockchain into a structured MySQL database, syncing blocks, transactions, ad… | 78 | 2205 | active |
| azimuttapp/azimutt Azimutt is a full-stack database exploration tool offering a next-generation ERD that scales to large, messy real-world schemas, plus data … | 73 | 2190 | active |
| dolthub/doltgresql Doltgres is a version-controlled PostgreSQL-compatible SQL database that lets you branch, merge, fork, clone, push, and pull database schem… | 95 | 2182 | active |
| rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb Rust bindings for RocksDB, the embedded key-value store, statically linked with a specific RocksDB version. It exposes RocksDB features lik… | 80 | 2180 | active |
| simonw/sqlite-utils sqlite-utils is a Python CLI utility and library for creating, querying, and manipulating SQLite databases. It supports piping JSON/CSV/TSV… | 96 | 2179 | stable |
| noborus/trdsql trdsql is a Go-based CLI tool that executes SQL queries directly against CSV, LTSV, JSON, JSONL, YAML, and TBLN files, supporting PostgreSQ… | 92 | 2176 | active |
| nhibernate/nhibernate-core NHibernate is a mature, open source object-relational mapper (ORM) for the .NET framework, actively developed and fully featured. It maps r… | 93 | 2175 | stable |
| Bitalostored Bitalostored is a high-performance distributed KV storage system from Zuoyebang, built on its self-developed bitalosdb engine and compatibl… | 64 | 2168 | stable |
| zio/zio-quill ZIO Quill is a Scala database query library providing a Quoted Domain Specific Language (QDSL) that translates Scala code into SQL or Cassa… | 68 | 2166 | stable |
| brody2consult/cordova-sqlite-storage A Cordova/PhoneGap plugin providing native SQLite database access on Android, iOS, and Windows with an API based on the HTML5/Web SQL draft… | 32 | 2159 | active |
| vicanso/zedis Zedis is a native, GPU-accelerated Redis GUI desktop client built with Rust and GPUI, designed to browse million-key databases smoothly wit… | 84 | 2152 | active |
| apache/tinkerpop Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework providing the Gremlin traversal language, drivers, Gremlin Server, and a reference in-memor… | 77 | 2149 | stable |
| EvgSkv/logica Logica is an open-source declarative logic programming language in the Datalog family that compiles to SQL. It lets users write logic-style… | 77 | 2147 | active |
| ideawu/ssdb SSDB is a fast, Redis-compatible NoSQL key-value database written in C++ that stores data on disk using LevelDB/RocksDB-style storage. It s… | 23 | 8307 | maintenance |
| benborla/mcp-server-mysql A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives LLMs like Claude read-only access to MySQL databases, letting them inspect schemas and run… | 77 | 2145 | active |
| apache/datafusion-ballista Apache DataFusion Ballista is a distributed query execution engine built on Apache DataFusion that parallelizes SQL and DataFrame workloads… | 95 | 2144 | active |
| CollaboratingPlatypus/PetaPoco PetaPoco is a tiny, fast, dependency-free micro-ORM for .NET that maps database rows to POCO objects using dynamic MSIL method generation. … | 53 | 2144 | active |
| jdbi/jdbi Jdbi is a Java library providing convenient, idiomatic access to relational databases on top of JDBC, with fluent and declarative APIs. It … | 94 | 2143 | active |
| feldera/feldera Feldera is an incremental computation engine written in Rust that evaluates arbitrary SQL programs incrementally using DBSP theory, maintai… | 94 | 2131 | active |
| magnusvk/counter_culture counter_culture is a Ruby gem that provides enhanced counter caches for Rails ActiveRecord applications. It keeps denormalized count and su… | 70 | 2120 | active |
| ROM ROM (Ruby Object Mapper) is a data mapping and persistence toolkit for Ruby that provides powerful object mapping without limiting the unde… | 81 | 2108 | active |
| alibaba/otter Otter is Alibaba's distributed database synchronization system that parses database incremental logs (via Canal) to replicate data near-rea… | 23 | 8124 | maintenance |
| beberlei/DoctrineExtensions A collection of extensions for Doctrine 2 that register many vendor-specific SQL functions (date, string, math, JSON, aggregate, and more) … | 23 | 2103 | active |
| ankane/dexter Dexter is an automatic index advisor for Postgres that analyzes slow queries from sources like pg_stat_statements, live activity, or log fi… | 72 | 2096 | active |
| guolindev/LitePal LitePal is an open-source Android ORM library that simplifies SQLite database usage, letting developers perform most database operations wi… | 32 | 8052 | maintenance |
| TileDB TileDB is an embeddable C++ storage engine for dense and sparse multi-dimensional arrays, with cloud object storage support (S3, GCS, Azure… | 82 | 2084 | stable |
| apache/polaris Apache Polaris is an open-source, fully-featured catalog for Apache Iceberg tables that implements the Iceberg REST catalog API. It provide… | 86 | 2082 | active |
| Syngnat/GoNavi GoNavi is a native cross-platform desktop database client built with Wails (Go) and React, supporting 30+ data sources including PostgreSQL… | 79 | 2080 | active |
| brendon/acts_as_list A Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord plugin that adds list management capabilities to models via an integer position column. It provides methods fo… | 68 | 2079 | active |
| Masterminds/squirrel Squirrel is a fluent SQL query builder library for Go that composes SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements from reusable parts. It i… | 23 | 7987 | maintenance |
| saltcorn/saltcorn Saltcorn is a free, open-source, extensible no-code database application builder for creating web and mobile apps with tables, views, layou… | 75 | 2073 | active |
| kristijanhusak/vim-dadbod-ui A Vim/Neovim plugin providing a tree-style UI on top of vim-dadbod for browsing databases, tables, and schemas. It supports saving queries,… | 68 | 2058 | active |
| beyondcode/laravel-query-detector A Laravel package that detects N+1 query problems in real time during development and alerts developers when eager loading should be used. … | 62 | 2058 | active |
| matrixorigin/matrixone MatrixOne is a cloud-native, distributed HTAP SQL database written in Go that is MySQL-compatible and includes built-in vector search and f… | 96 | 2057 | active |
| plv8/plv8 PLV8 is a PostgreSQL extension that adds a trusted procedural language powered by the V8 JavaScript engine, letting you write stored proced… | 75 | 2053 | active |
| apache/bookkeeper Apache BookKeeper is a scalable, fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed storage service optimized for append-only workloads, offering repl… | 93 | 2014 | stable |
| caiyue1993/IceCream IceCream is a Swift library that syncs a local Realm database with Apple's CloudKit service. It provides automatic, offline-first data sync… | 67 | 2004 | active |
| Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake pg_mooncake is a Postgres extension that maintains a columnstore mirror of Postgres tables in Apache Iceberg, enabling fast real-time analy… | 55 | 2003 | active |
| Pravega Pravega is an open-source distributed storage service that implements Streams as a first-class primitive: durable, elastic, append-only, un… | 23 | 2000 | active |
| msiemens/tinydb TinyDB is a lightweight, pure-Python document-oriented NoSQL database that stores documents as dicts in a JSON file with no external depend… | 83 | 7568 | maintenance |
| Shopify/identity_cache IdentityCache is a Ruby gem that adds opt-in, read-through blob caching to Active Record models, backed by Memcached. It lets you fetch rec… | 85 | 1969 | stable |
| mirage/irmin Irmin is an OCaml library for building mergeable, branchable distributed data stores following Git's design principles, with clone/push/pul… | 67 | 1963 | active |
| mackyle/sqlite An unofficial Git mirror of the complete SQLite source code, a self-contained C library implementing an embedded SQL database engine suppor… | 72 | 1956 | stable |
| microsoft/DiskANN DiskANN3 is a composable Rust library for scalable, accurate vector indexing and nearest-neighbor search, designed to be embedded into data… | 100 | 1952 | active |
| gejun123456/MyBatisCodeHelper-Pro MyBatisCodeHelper-Pro is an IntelliJ IDEA plugin providing comprehensive MyBatis support, including SQL generation from method names, CRUD … | 75 | 1951 | active |
| oxigraph/oxigraph Oxigraph is a SPARQL graph database and RDF toolkit written in Rust, built on RocksDB. It provides RDF parsing, serialization, canonicaliza… | 96 | 1947 | active |
| piccolo-orm/piccolo Piccolo is a fast, user-friendly ORM and query builder for Python with first-class asyncio support. It includes batteries like migrations, … | 93 | 1946 | active |
| ClosureTree/closure_tree A Ruby gem that lets ActiveRecord models act as nodes in a tree data structure using the closure table pattern. It provides highly efficien… | 95 | 1944 | active |
| franciscoBSalgueiro/en-croissant En Croissant is an open-source, cross-platform chess GUI built with Tauri, React, and Rust. It combines game analysis with UCI engines, a p… | 97 | 1938 | active |
| dimmas893/pos-backend A PHP/Laravel point-of-sale (POS) backend application providing a REST API for sales, products, and inventory management. It is installed v… | 28 | 1935 | active |
| gregnavis/active_record_doctor A Ruby gem that detects database issues in Rails applications, such as extraneous indexes, missing foreign key constraints, and validations… | 76 | 1931 | active |
| seancorfield/honeysql HoneySQL is a Clojure library that turns Clojure data structures into SQL statements, letting you build queries programmatically without st… | 94 | 1927 | active |
| pointfreeco/sqlite-data SQLiteData is a fast, lightweight Swift persistence library that serves as a drop-in replacement for SwiftData, built on top of GRDB. It pr… | 84 | 1923 | active |
| microsoft/vscode-mssql The official Microsoft SQL Server extension for Visual Studio Code, providing connection management, query execution, schema management, an… | 100 | 1915 | active |
| magic-api magic-api is a Java-based rapid API development framework that lets developers write scripts and configure HTTP interfaces through a web UI… | 42 | 1911 | stable |
| evoluhq/evolu Evolu is a TypeScript library and local-first platform for building apps where users own their data, built on SQLite with CRDT-based sync a… | 95 | 1906 | active |
| mikependon/RepoDB RepoDB is a high-performance hybrid-ORM library and data access platform for .NET, exposing fluent CRUD and raw SQL operations as extension… | 94 | 1905 | stable |
| kennethreitz/records Records is a Python library for making raw SQL queries to relational databases with a simple, human-friendly interface for accessing result… | 49 | 7216 | maintenance |
| Roaring Bitmap Roaring Bitmaps is a Java library providing compressed bitsets that outperform conventional compressed bitmap formats like WAH, EWAH, and C… | 99 | 1899 | stable |
| aio-libs/aiomysql aiomysql is an asyncio-based Python driver for accessing MySQL and MariaDB databases, built on top of PyMySQL with its I/O calls converted … | 54 | 1896 | active |
| django-tenants/django-tenants A Django app that adds multitenancy support to Django projects using PostgreSQL schemas, so multiple customers can share one application in… | 94 | 1894 | active |
| ttionya/vaultwarden-backup A Docker-based backup tool for Vaultwarden (formerly bitwarden_rs) that archives the database, config, RSA keys, attachments, and sends dir… | 94 | 1892 | active |
| microsoft/msphpsql Microsoft's official PHP extensions (SQLSRV and PDO_SQLSRV) for reading and writing SQL Server data from PHP scripts, supporting SQL Server… | 91 | 1885 | active |
| Datahike Datahike is a durable, versioned Datalog database with Datomic-compatible APIs and git-like semantics, built on persistent data structures … | 93 | 1877 | active |
| LadybugDB/ladybug Ladybug is an embedded, serverless graph database (a community successor to Kuzu) written in C++, using a property graph data model and the… | 84 | 1872 | active |
| niklasb/libc-database A shell-based tool that builds a searchable database of libc symbol offsets from Ubuntu, Debian, and other distributions to simplify binary… | 72 | 1872 | active |
| neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures APOC (Awesome Procedures On Cypher) is a library of hundreds of procedures and functions that extend Neo4j's Cypher query language. It is p… | 89 | 1868 | active |
| superfly/corrosion Corrosion is a Rust-based distributed system that propagates SQLite state across a cluster using gossip (SWIM membership via Foca) and CRDT… | 88 | 1859 | active |
| fabianlindfors/reshape Reshape is a zero-downtime schema migration tool for Postgres, written in Rust. It keeps old and new schemas available simultaneously via v… | 96 | 1857 | active |
| NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql An Elasticsearch plugin that lets users query Elasticsearch indices using familiar SQL syntax instead of the native query DSL. It is offici… | 79 | 7008 | maintenance |
| aarondl/sqlboiler SQLBoiler is a database-first ORM generator for Go that introspects your existing database schema and generates type-safe, ActiveRecord-sty… | 72 | 6988 | maintenance |
| charmbracelet/skate Skate is a personal key-value store accessed from the command line, written in Go by Charmbracelet. It supports storing and retrieving text… | 86 | 1846 | active |
| krateng/maloja Maloja is a self-hosted music scrobble server that stores your listening history and generates personal statistics and charts. It is a priv… | 77 | 1845 | active |
| Npgsql Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL is the official Entity Framework Core provider for PostgreSQL, built on top of the Npgsql ADO.NET dri… | 92 | 1839 | stable |
| schemacrawler/SchemaCrawler SchemaCrawler is a free Java-based database schema discovery and comprehension tool that extracts database metadata via JDBC and outputs it… | 95 | 1838 | active |
| Cysharp/MasterMemory MasterMemory is a source-generator-based embedded typed readonly in-memory document database for .NET and Unity. It generates type-safe dat… | 78 | 1838 | active |
| alibaba/havenask Havenask is a large-scale distributed information search engine developed by Alibaba Group, written in C++ and used to power search for ser… | 53 | 1838 | active |
| django-commons/django-polymorphic A Django library providing seamless polymorphic model inheritance with automatic downcasting, so queries on a base model return instances o… | 95 | 1836 | active |
| scottksmith95/LINQKit LINQKit is a free set of extensions for LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework power users, providing helpers like predicate building and express… | 68 | 1833 | stable |
| NikolayS/PgQue PgQue is a zero-bloat job/event queue for PostgreSQL implemented in pure SQL and PL/pgSQL, rebuilt from Skype's battle-tested PgQ architect… | 60 | 1831 | active |
| keldaanCommunity/pokemonAutoChess An open-source, non-profit fan-made Pokemon auto chess game playable in the browser. It is a full-stack TypeScript application using MongoD… | 92 | 1823 | active |
| alibaba/MongoShake MongoShake is a Go-based universal data replication platform built on MongoDB's oplog, fetching changes from a source MongoDB and replaying… | 92 | 1820 | active |
| techfort/LokiJS LokiJS is a fast, embeddable, in-memory document-oriented NoSQL database written in JavaScript. It stores JavaScript objects as documents w… | 32 | 6825 | maintenance |
| google/nomulus Nomulus is an open-source, scalable, cloud-based top-level domain (TLD) registry service written in Java and running on Google Kubernetes E… | 95 | 1813 | active |
| supervc-stack/VectorChord VectorChord is a PostgreSQL extension written in Rust for scalable, disk-efficient vector similarity search, serving as the successor to pg… | 73 | 1807 | active |
| worldveil/dejavu Dejavu is a Python library that fingerprints audio files and recognizes songs by matching recorded microphone input or audio from disk agai… | 32 | 6787 | maintenance |
| ormar-orm/ormar Ormar is an async mini ORM for Python supporting Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, built on SQLAlchemy Core with pydantic validation. It lets yo… | 91 | 1802 | active |
| Meituan-Dianping/Leaf Leaf is a distributed unique ID generation service from Meituan offering segment (database-based) and snowflake (ZooKeeper-based) modes, de… | 32 | 6765 | maintenance |
| google/lovefield Lovefield is a pure JavaScript relational database for web apps, providing SQL-like APIs that work cross-browser. It enables structured, qu… | 10 | 6761 | maintenance |
| emacs-elfeed/elfeed Elfeed is an extensible web feeds client for Emacs supporting Atom, RSS, and JSON Feed formats. It provides a search-based UI inspired by n… | 67 | 1794 | active |
| stephenafamo/bob Bob is a Go SQL access toolkit providing a fluent, dialect-aware query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, plus a database-first ORM… | 95 | 1786 | active |
| DreamFactory DreamFactory is a self-hosted enterprise data access platform that instantly generates fully governed REST APIs from databases, file stores… | 97 | 1785 | active |
| julien040/anyquery Anyquery is a SQL query engine built on SQLite that turns 60+ tools, APIs, and file formats (GitHub, Notion, Airtable, CSV, Parquet, etc.) … | 87 | 1783 | active |
| GreenmaskIO/greenmask Greenmask is an open-source CLI utility for logical database dumping, anonymization, synthetic data generation, and restoration, production… | 94 | 1782 | active |
| zouzg/mybatis-generator-gui A JavaFX-based GUI tool built on top of MyBatis Generator that lets developers generate MyBatis Java POJOs and database mapping files throu… | 23 | 6677 | maintenance |