Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Datalevin – a simple, fast, and versatile Datalog database
After 6 years of open source development, Datalevin has now reached 1.0. The goal of the project is to have better ergonomics than a SQL database for OLTP workloads. We have made Datalog practical by being competitive in relational and graph query performance, and by integrating full-text, vector search and document indexing into the same fact-based data model. I am the maintainer and happy to answer any questions.
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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QuestDB▲194Fastest open source database for time-series and analytics
2020 · questdb.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text search (FTS). Why graph, vector and FTS? Graph databases provide a natural cognitive model for data, vectors allow for a semantic understanding of the entities and relationships in the graph, and FTS provides more specific filtering. Many AI-driven applications attempt to combine all of these functionalities by stitching together…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we want to share HelixDB (https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/), a project a college friend and I are working on. It’s a new database that natively intertwines graph and vector types, without sacrificing performance. It’s written in Rust and our initial focus is on supporting RAG. Here’s a video runthrough: https://screen.studio/share/szgQu3yq. Why a hybrid? Vector databases are useful for similarity queries, while graph databases are useful for relationship queries. Each stores data in a way that’s best for its main type of query (e.g.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there HN! We’re Antonio, Luca, and Yuhang, and we’re excited to introduce Fast GraphRAG, an open-source RAG approach that leverages knowledge graphs and the 25 years old PageRank for better information retrieval and reasoning. Building a good RAG pipeline these days takes a lot of manual optimizations. Most engineers intuitively start from naive RAG: throw everything in a vector database and hope that semantic search is powerful enough. This can work for use cases where accuracy isn’t too important and hallucinations are tolerable, but it doesn’t work for more difficult queries that…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're thrilled to share CozoDB v0.6, a monumental update to our FOSS database, which already unifies relational and graph features. With the addition of vector search, CozoDB becomes an even better companion for LLMs like ChatGPT. This release introduces vector search using HNSW indices within Datalog, enabling seamless integration with powerful features such as ad-hoc joins, recursive Datalog, and classical whole-graph algorithms. This update significantly broadens CozoDB's capabilities. Check out the linked release note for an in-depth look at the new features, comparisons to other…
2023 · docs.cozodb.org · its alternatives →
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Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · terminusdb.com · its alternatives →
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Query OpenAI’s GPT-3 from directly inside your database
2023 · mindshub.ai · 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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2022 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase▲313Open source business intelligence - Installs in 5 minutes
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community. We are excited to open source Dataherald’s natural-language-to-SQL engine today (https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald). This engine allows you to set up an API from your structured database that can answer questions in plain English. GPT-4 class LLMs have gotten remarkably good at writing SQL. However, out-of-the-box LLMs and existing frameworks would not work with our own structured data at a necessary quality level. For example, given the question “what was the average rent in Los Angeles in May 2023?” a reasonable human would either assume the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Two weeks ago I was on my babymoon in Corfu, Greece. While in transit, I was overseeing a GSoC intern submit an important feature to my array database library, Xarray-SQL. He added `to_dataset()`, which completed the roundtrip between thinking of array data in a tabular model simultaneously as gridded rasters (the premise of the project is that every Nd array can be mapped to 2d, where orthogonal dims of the Nd array are just primary keys of a tabular representation). We discussed in chat, now that this feature existed, what demos could we make that would prove this data model works? With…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We're Luke and Phillip, and we're building Spice.ai OSS - a lightweight, portable runtime, built in Rust and powered by Apache DataFusion to locally materialize, accelerate, and query data tables sourced from any database, data warehouse or data lake. Phillip and I first introduced Spice on Show HN in September 2021. Since then, we’ve been schooled and humbled in every way building 100TB+ data and ML systems for the https://spice.ai cloud platform. Along with our customers, we struggled with getting fast, low-latency, high-concurrency SQL query within a budget, accessing and…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data. - terminusdb/terminusdb
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp - GitHub - codr7/whirlog: a minimal versioned log structured relational DB in Common Lisp
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DatabaseLog▲88MongoDB Analytics to track your site performance
2020 · databaselog.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We are building Epsilla (https://github.com/epsilla-cloud/vectordb), an open-source, self-hostable vector database for semantic similarity search that specializes in low query latency. When do we need a vector database? For example, GPT-3.5 has a 16k context window limit. If we want to let it answer a question about a 300 page book, we cannot put the whole book content into the context. We have to choose the sections of the book that are most relevant to the question. Vector database is specialized at ranking and picking the most relevant content from a large pool…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HelixDB▲105An open-source OLTP graph-vector database built in Rust.
Feb 2026 · helix-db.com · its alternatives →
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Slava Akhmechet schools us on RethinkDB and the realtime web
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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