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24 alternatives to Monotone – bottomless embeddable storage for events (GA)

Embeddable Cloud-Native Storage for events and time-series data. (GA release)

Monotone is an embeddable cloud-native storage system designed for events and time-series data. It targets developers who need to store and manage event-driven or time-series information within their applications. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Monotone – bottomless embeddable storage for events (GA) launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    An application-oriented unified storage layer for Golang.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Over the past few months, we've been building Prism; a fast, developer-first observability UI that's deeply integrated with our open-source database, Parseable. Prism is designed for engineers who debug distributed systems, sometimes at odd hours, and need answers right now, without having to deal with five different tools. Backstory: We spoke to dozens of observability practitioners in large enterprises. Across the board, we heard two things: (1)The RoI on observability tools is hard to justify. (2)OSS leads to tool sprawl, metrics in Grafana, logs in ELK, traces… somewhere. We wanted a…

    2022 · parseable.com · its alternatives →

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    Nebbl▲347

    Revolutionize storage: own your Cloud and save big

    2024 · nebbl.com · its alternatives →

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    A probabilistic data structure service and storage - skizzehq/skizze

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I have been working with regulation-heavy documents lately, and one thing kept bothering me. Flat RAG pipelines often fail to retrieve related articles together, even when they are clearly connected through references, definitions, or clauses. After trying several RAG setups, I subjectively felt that GraphRAG was a better mental model for this kind of data. The Microsoft GraphRAG paper and reference implementation were helpful starting points. However, in practice, I found one recurring friction point: graph storage and vector indexing are usually handled by separate systems, which…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DataPrism turns the clouds you already use into sovereign, provable, unreadable storage. Client-side encryption, one TypeScript SDK, invisible to your users.

    2017 · dataprism.co · its alternatives →

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    A secure, private productivity suite.

    2018 · graphitedocs.com · its alternatives →

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    A searchable, filterable Visualize Value content archive

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A Modern GUI For S3

    2025 · tinybrief.app · its alternatives →

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    Private encrypted file storage, powered by crypto.

    2019 · opacity.io · its alternatives →

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    xordrive▲106

    Encrypted & decentralized cloud storage.

    2019 · xordrive.io · its alternatives →

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    3Box▲100

    Secure, private, decentralized user data storage

    2019 · 3box.io · 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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    OS runtime unifying GA4, PostHog, + Stripe into a local db

    Jun 2026 · infinite.fast · its alternatives →

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    I keep running in the same problem of each AI app “remembers” me in its own silo. ChatGPT knows my project details, Cursor forgets them, Claude starts from zero… so I end up re-explaining myself dozens of times a day across these apps. The deeper problem 1. Not portable – context is vendor-locked; nothing travels across tools. 2. Not relational – most memory systems store only the latest fact (“sticky notes”) with no history or provenance. 3. Not yours – your AI memory is sensitive first-party data, yet you have no control over where it lives or how it’s queried. Demo video:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We built Sortabase to let communities collaborate on visual databases of the things they know and care about. The fields of each database are defined by its moderators using a no-code drag-n-drop interface, and the resulting database is easy to search, filter, sort, and contribute to. The platform is 100% free to use - take a look, and feedback is appreciated!

    2023 · sortabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Serverless collaborative data storage through REST API

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Collect, store, and analyze time series and geolocated data

    2020 · warp10.io · its alternatives →

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    Synmetrix – production-ready open source semantic layer on Cube - synmetrix/synmetrix

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lossless long-term memory for a personal AI: never summarize, keep every line, put a timestamp on everything. - aru-labs/lossless-memory

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An encrypted, in-memory, key-value store. Contribute to ankane/morph development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Emilie, I have a literature background (which explains the well-written documentation!) and I've been learning Rust and distributed systems by building minikv over the past few months. It recently got featured in Programmez! magazine: https://www.programmez.com/actualites/minikv-un-key-value-st... minikv is an open-source, distributed storage engine built for learning, experimentation, and self-hosted setups. It combines a strongly-consistent key-value database (Raft), S3-compatible object storage, and basic multi-tenancy. Features/highlights: - Raft…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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