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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 â–˛ Launched
DeepSQL HN 52 2026-07-20
Tonbo HN 56 2025-12-17
Lux HN 59 2026-03-15
Minikv HN 71 2026-02-03
casita GITHUB 77 2026-09-27
Syncular HN 79 2026-08-02
ShapedQL HN 80 2026-01-27
SyncKit HN 87 2025-11-27
DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1 HN 90 2026-03-25
Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go HN 107 2026-03-17
airspace GITHUB 118 2026-09-11
Rocky HN 122 2026-04-28
HelixDB HN 159 2026-06-10
sqlite-multiwriter GITHUB 161 2026-10-08
seriousdb GITHUB 183 2026-09-12
Turbolite HN 185 2026-03-26
LatticeDB HN 190 2026-08-25
SereneDB PH 197 2026-09-22
Actian VectorAI DB PH 203 2026-04-28
PgDog PH 227 2026-07-14
Netlify Database PH 255 2026-04-29