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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
tiny-redis GITHUB 6 2026-09-12
Marmot v2.20 HN 5 2025-12-12
PgEdge Control Plane, a declarative API for multi-region Postgres mgmt HN 5 2025-11-19
Ember HN 5 2026-02-27
NodeDB HN 5 2026-05-11
OrcaSheets, local first analytics engine to process billions of rows HN 5 2026-05-15
Aphelo HN 5 2026-04-01
SnkvDB HN 5 2026-02-16
SatoriDB HN 5 2025-12-30
Onlymaps, a Python Micro-ORM HN 5 2025-11-22
Pglite-oxide HN 5 2026-04-27
ChikkaDB HN 5 2025-11-29
We built a type-safe Python ORM for RedisGraph/FalkorDB HN 5 2026-01-28
I "built" Sana, a vector DB on object storage HN 5 2026-06-21
IceVault — Encrypted Local Database PH 4 2026-09-15
NubeStore CloudStore API PH 2 2026-09-14
Klyro PH 2 2026-09-14
UseSQLite PH 2 2026-09-16
DataIncisive PH 1 2026-09-15
PLOMID PH 1 2026-09-18
Cockroach Continuum PH 1 2026-09-16