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database management systems and engines

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

horizontal · 121 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

Products in this niche provide the foundational storage, querying, and retrieval architectures needed to power modern software, distributed systems, and AI workloads. They are adopted by software engineers, system architects, and DevOps teams seeking optimized persistence layers, ranging from embedded vector engines to scalable relational and graph backends. Unlike database administration tooling or data visualization platforms, these solutions focus directly on low-level data access, concurrency management, and core execution engine performance.

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Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
Pg_sorted_heap–Physically sorted PostgreSQL with builtin vector search HN 10 2026-03-06
couchbase-download GITHUB 10 2026-10-06
TidesDB HN 10 2026-02-12
AstroDB GITHUB 11 2026-09-15
OPENTenBase GITHUB 11 2026-09-25
rustberg GITHUB 11 2026-09-14
Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso HN 11 2026-10-07
gatekv GITHUB 11 2026-09-30
AnamDB HN 11 2026-05-08
Stratum HN 12 2026-03-12
ObsessionDB HN 12 2026-01-23
VillageSQL HN 12 2026-02-05
I built a database for AI agents HN 12 2026-04-07
Markdown as a Database HN 13 2026-04-24
SirixDB 1.0 Beta HN 13 2026-07-15
XTrace HN 13 2026-04-22
Penca HN 14 2026-07-31
graphersal GITHUB 14 2026-10-11
TidesDB HN 14 2025-11-09
OM Core HN 14 2026-06-30
BlitzGraph HN 15 2026-06-16
IceGate HN 15 2026-04-13
ShapedQL: The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents YC 15 2026-01-28
vectra-core GITHUB 15 2026-10-04
UnisonDB HN 15 2025-11-15
lsm-engine GITHUB 16 2026-09-12
Pivot HN 16 2026-10-08
Ardent - Clone any postgres DB of any size in <6s YC 16 2026-05-05
UnisonDB HN 17 2025-11-01
Baerly-storage, a document DB that runs per request, no DB server HN 18 2026-07-07
pg-outbox GITHUB 20 2026-09-24
hypergraph GITHUB 21 2026-10-04
S3 compatible store with 1M IOPS(4K-R,p99~5ms), BYOC in 5min with rust HN 23 2025-12-07
JevSDSQL GITHUB 23 2026-09-23
ParqDB HN 26 2026-08-21
VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions HN 27 2026-02-05
Pinecone Explorer HN 31 2026-01-28
raft-kv-store GITHUB 34 2026-10-04
SQLite Graph Ext HN 35 2025-10-29
Minikv HN 35 2026-01-17
SNKV HN 36 2026-02-24
Dogicat_DMS GITHUB 36 2026-09-22
shahrah GITHUB 37 2026-09-27
Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB HN 39 2026-05-19
Minigraf HN 41 2026-10-05
Spice Cayenne HN 42 2025-12-18
EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents HN 45 2026-09-10
Managed Postgres with native ClickHouse integration HN 45 2026-01-22
SQLite for Rivet Actors HN 45 2026-02-28
justPostgres GITHUB 46 2026-09-09