Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AnuDB– Backed on RocksDB, 279x Faster Than SQLite in Parallel Workloads
We recently benchmarked AnuDB, a lightweight embedded database built on top of RocksDB, against SQLite on a Raspberry Pi. The performance difference, especially for parallel operations, was dramatic. GitHub Links: AnuDBBenchmark: https://github.com/hash-anu/AnuDBBenchmark AnuDB (Core): https://github.com/hash-anu/AnuDB Why Compare AnuDB and SQLite? SQLite is excellent for many embedded use cases — it’s simple, battle-tested, and extremely reliable. But it doesn't scale well when parallelism or concurrent writes are required. AnuDB, built over RocksDB,…
AnuDB is a lightweight embedded database built on RocksDB that handles concurrent operations and parallel workloads more efficiently than SQLite. It uses RocksDB and MsgPack serialization for improved performance in… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey there HN! We’re Joe and Stopa, and today we’re open sourcing InstantDB, a client-side database that makes it easy to build real-time and collaborative apps like Notion and Figma. Building modern apps these days involves a lot of schleps. For a basic CRUD app you need to spin up servers, wire up endpoints, integrate auth, add permissions, and then marshal data from the backend to the frontend and back again. If you want to deliver a buttery smooth user experience, you’ll need to add optimistic updates and rollbacks. We do these steps over and over for every feature we build, which can…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a relational database management system (RDBMS) (sqlite clone) from scratch in pure Python.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I built stanchion to scratch my own itch. I have personal applications running on SQLite where I want to store log and metric data (basically forever) but don't want to add complexity by bringing in a new database or whole separate server. Some of these applications are running on a Raspberry Pi, where storage and compute are limited, but I still want data warehouse like capabilities. I envision stanchion being used in similar scenarios: on phones and resource-limited devices in applications that are already using SQLite. I know that there are alternatives like DuckDB (which is…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Go SQL query builder and struct mapper. Contribute to samonzeweb/godb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ - asrp/pyzdb
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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InstantDB▲320Complete backend with auth and storage in one prompt
Apr 2026 · instantdb.com · its alternatives →
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We just launched Outerbase Studio, the open-source version of our core database offering. It works in your browser or as a desktop app and supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. What it does: • Connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases. • Spin up local databases directly through the UI, even if you don’t have one running. • Manage and query your data in a lightweight, intuitive interface. • Completely open source. Why we built it: We wanted to share the core Outerbase experience with the developer community as a free, open-source tool. It’s simple, fast, and removes the barriers…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite - phiresky/sqlite-zstd
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wanted to make my own evaluation of what kind of performance I could expect from SQLite on a server and investigate the experimental `BEGIN CONCURRENT` branch vs the inbuilt `DEFERRED` and `IMMEDIATE` behaviors. Explanatory blog post: https://reorchestrate.com/posts/sqlite-transactions/
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm building mvsqlite, a distributed variant of SQLite with MVCC transactions, that runs on FoundationDB. It is a drop-in replacement that just needs an `LD_PRELOAD` for existing applications using SQLite. I made this because Blueboat (https://github.com/losfair/blueboat) needs a native SQL interface to persistent data. Apparently, just providing a transactional key-value store isn’t enough - it is more easy and efficient to build complex business logic on an SQL database, and it seems necessary to bring a self-hostable distributed SQL DB onto the platform.…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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QoreDB▲95The fast, open-source database client built with Rust
Mar 2026 · qoredb.com · its alternatives →
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PMB▲211PMB gives Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Zed a real memory. Decisions, lessons and facts in one SQLite file on your disk. Offline, no API keys, no cloud.
Jun 2026 · pmbai.dev · its alternatives →
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Hello! For the past year I’ve been working on a fully-managed data warehouse built on Clickhouse. I built this because I was frustrated with how much work was required to run an OLAP database in prod: re-writing my app to do batch inserts, managing clusters and needing to look up special CREATE TABLE syntax every time I made a change. I found pricing for other warehouses confusing (what is a “credit” exactly?) and worried about getting capacity-planning wrong. I was previously building accounting software for firms with millions of transactions. I desperately needed to move from Postgres to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →
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A document database built on top of SQLite with full LINQ/IQueryable support. - Unconcurrent/SoloDB
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WunderBase is an open source Serverless GraphQL database built on SQLite, Firecracker, and Prisma. Sleep mode saves cost—perfect for fast, lightweight apps.
2022 · wundergraph.com · its alternatives →
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I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset. It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size. There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible. If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered. Full description:…
2022 · benchmark.clickhouse.com · its alternatives →
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In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API - tidwall/summitdb
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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upscaledb - a blazingly fast embedded key-value store with analytical functions
2016 · upscaledb.com · its alternatives →
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The fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP
2025 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →
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RipDB▲65Fast, decentralized key-value Store for web3 builders
2022 · zdenham.github.io · its alternatives →
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