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milvus-io/milvus

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

AI dev

Stack

Go Axum Cobra Gin gRPC Go Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#anns #cloud-native #diskann #distributed #embedding-database #embedding-similarity

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2019-03-18
History: 140 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,476 open

46,402

stars

Forks: 4,303
Commits: 25,778 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +53 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +54 +0.2%

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qdrant/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/

Stack

Rust Actix Web Axum pytest Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ai-search #ai-search-engine #embeddings-similarity #hnsw #hybrid-search #image-search

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-30
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 750 open

34,968

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Forks: 2,729
Commits: 7,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pgvector/pgvector

Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

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GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #nearest-neighbor-search

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-20
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 16 open

22,985

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Forks: 1,316
Commits: 1,968 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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weaviate/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.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go pytest Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #generative-search #grpc #hnsw #hybrid-search #image-search

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-30
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 800 open

16,866

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Forks: 1,419
Commits: 30,547 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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spotify/annoy

Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk

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C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #c-plus-plus #golang #locality-sensitive-hashing #lua #nearest-neighbor-search

Updated: 2025-10-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-20
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 90 open

14,312

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Forks: 1,227
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lancedb/lancedb

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

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Stack

Rust Axum pytest Cargo Maven npm

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #image-search #nearest-neighbor-search #recommender-system #search-engine #semantic-search

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 622 open

11,384

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Forks: 1,046
Commits: 2,958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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haifengl/smile

Statistical Machine Intelligence & Learning Engine

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Stack

Java Quarkus React Tailwind CSS Vite CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#classification #clustering #computer-algebra-system #computer-vision #data-science #dataframe

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-20
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

6,415

stars

Forks: 1,147
Commits: 6,625 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mlpack/mlpack

mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #deep-learning #machine-learning #machine-learning-library #nearest-neighbor-search #regression

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-13
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

5,713

stars

Forks: 1,725
Commits: 30,841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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infiniflow/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.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js pytest React Svelte CMake Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai-native #approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #bm25 #cpp20 #cpp20-modules #embedding

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 122 open

4,706

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 3,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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spotify/voyager

🛰️ An approximate nearest-neighbor search library for Python and Java with a focus on ease of use, simplicity, and deployability.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#hnsw #hnswlib #java #machine-learning #nearest-neighbor-search #python

Updated: 2026-03-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-13
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,599

stars

Forks: 85
Commits: 114 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mrhooray/kdtree-rs

K-dimensional tree in Rust for fast geospatial indexing and lookup

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#geo-spatial #index #k-dimensional #nearest-neighbor-search #rust #search

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-07-29
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

286

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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