Oxen-AI/Oxen

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1184 stars · 35 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Oxen is a fast data version control system written in Rust that versions large datasets (images, audio, video, text, parquet) with a git-like workflow. It ships as a CLI, Python package, HTTP API server, and embeddable Rust library, with hosted or self-hosted repository hosting.

Use cases

• version control for large image datasets
• git for machine learning training data
• version model weights and checkpoints
• manage millions of files in a data repository
• collaborate on dataset annotations with branching
• self-hosted data version control server
• version parquet files with millions of rows

When to choose

• you need to version terabytes of data or millions of files where git and git-lfs fall short
• your team branches, commits, and merges changes to ML datasets like code
• you want a git-like CLI plus Python SDK for data versioning
• you need fast indexing and transfer of unstructured media assets

When to avoid

• you only version small text source code - plain git is simpler
• you need general-purpose object storage rather than versioned repositories
• you require a mature ecosystem with broad third-party integrations

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

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