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Vector databases
ToolStarsLicenceTermsSelf-hostedLanguageLatestLast push
Milvus46kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov3.0.22026-10-06
Qdrant35kApache-2.0Open sourceYesRustv1.19.22026-10-06
Chroma29kApache-2.0Open sourceYesRust1.5.92026-10-05
pgvector23kOtherOpen sourceYesCv0.8.72026-10-06
Weaviate17kOtherOpen coreYesGov1.39.92026-10-06
LanceDB12kApache-2.0Open sourceYesRustv0.39.02026-10-06
Deep Lake9.2kApache-2.0Open sourceYesC++v4.5.22026-05-21
Infinity4.7kApache-2.0Open sourceYesC++v0.7.32026-09-23
pgvectorscale3.1kPostgreSQLNot checkedYesRust0.9.12026-10-01
VectorChord1.8kOtherOpen sourceYesRust1.1.12026-08-06
Vald1.7kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov1.8.02026-10-06

11 tools

Milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

Language
Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
46k
Latest
v3.0.2
Last push
2026-10-06
Qdrant

Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

Language
Rust
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
35k
Latest
v1.19.2
Last push
2026-10-06
pgvector

Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

Language
C
Licence
Other
Stars
23k
Latest
v0.8.7
Last push
2026-10-06
Weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database​.

Language
Go
Licence
Other
Stars
17k
Latest
v1.39.9
Last push
2026-10-06
LanceDB

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

Language
Rust
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
12k
Latest
v0.39.0
Last push
2026-10-06
Deep Lake

Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.

Language
C++
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
9.2k
Latest
v4.5.2
Last push
2026-05-21
Infinity

The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.

Language
C++
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
4.7k
Latest
v0.7.3
Last push
2026-09-23
pgvectorscale

Postgres extension for vector search (DiskANN), complements pgvector for performance and scale. Postgres OSS licensed.

Language
Rust
Licence
PostgreSQL
Stars
3.1k
Latest
0.9.1
Last push
2026-10-01
VectorChord

Scalable, fast, and disk-friendly vector search in Postgres, the successor of pgvecto.rs.

Language
Rust
Licence
Other
Stars
1.8k
Latest
1.1.1
Last push
2026-08-06
Vald

Vald. A Highly Scalable Distributed Vector Search Engine

Language
Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
1.7k
Latest
v1.8.0
Last push
2026-10-06

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