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TensorBase is a database acceleration tool written in Rust that serves as a drop-in accelerator for ClickHouse. It is designed for developers and data engineers who work with ClickHouse and need faster query… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. TensorBase: 5x~10000x Faster Drop-In/Accelerator for ClickHouse in Rust launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Open-source machine learning library by Google

    2017 · tensorflow.org · 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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    Hi all, I've talked about glidesort a few times on HN already, but it's finally ready for release. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. An academic paper on glidesort that goes into a lot more detail than the readme is upcoming, but is not ready yet. I will be giving a talk on glidesort tomorrow at FOSDEM 2023 in the Rust Devroom at 16:10, you can seek me out there as well. In other news, I am leaving academia soon, so if you have interesting (Rust) jobs the coming months feel free to approach me.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A high performance & cross-platform layout engine

    2019 · vislyhq.github.io · 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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    Me with my friend Vitaly Ludvichenko made an experiment to combine ClickHouse server and client to make a self-contained program running a database engine and processing data without a server: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/150 Development continued in the past 6 years, and now clickhouse-local becomes a swiss-army knife for data processing. Say "ffmpeg" for datasets and more. It can resemble textql, octosql, dsq, duckdb, trdsql, q, datafusion-cli, spyql, but has better capabilities and performance. Here is a tutorial:…

    2023 · clickhouse.com · its alternatives →

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    Blazing-fast in-browser neural networks

    2017 · tenso.rs · its alternatives →

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    SIMD noise library for Rust. Contribute to verpeteren/rust-simd-noise development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scalable, Low-latency and Hybrid-enabled Vector Search in Postgres. Revolutionize Vector Search, not Database. - tensorchord/pgvecto.rs

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! I’m Jonathan from TensorDock. After 7 months in beta, we’re finally launching Core Cloud, our platform to deploy GPU virtual machines in as little as 45 seconds! https://www.tensordock.com/product-core Why? Training machine learning workloads at large clouds can be extremely expensive. This left us wondering, “how did cloud ever become more expensive than on-prem?” I’ve seen too many ML startups buy their own hardware. Cheaper dedicated servers with NVIDIA GPUs are not too hard to find, but they lack the functionality and scalability of the big clouds. We thought to…

    2022 · tensordock.com · its alternatives →

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    chdb▲88

    Embedded SQL OLAP engine powered by ClickHouse

    2023 · clickhouse.com · its alternatives →

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    QoreDB▲95

    The fast, open-source database client built with Rust

    Mar 2026 · qoredb.com · its alternatives →

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    A fast, multi-threaded Redis® and Valkey alternative written in Rust: drop-in compatible, with full-text and vector search built in - kividbio/kividb

    4d ago · 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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    Keep your Cheerio code. Make it faster.

    5d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Hugo. I've been building Rocky over the past month, shipping fast in the open. The binary is on GitHub Releases, `dagster-rocky` on PyPI, and the VS Code extension on the Marketplace. I held off on a broader announcement until the trust-system surface was coherent enough to talk about as one thing. The governance waveplan — column classification, per-env masking, 8-field audit trail on every run, `rocky compliance` rollup, role-graph reconciliation, retention policies — landed end-to-end last week in engine-v1.16.0 and rounded out in v1.17.4 (tagged 2026-04-26). That's the…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone - tensorflow/tensorflow/core/distributed_runtime at master · tensorflow/tensorflow

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    cuTile Rust provides a safe, tile-based kernel programming DSL for the Rust programming language. It features a safe host-side API for passing tensors to asynchronously executed kernel functions. - NVlabs/cutile-rs

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Over the past few months, I've been building `dsc`, a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA. My main focus has been on getting the basics right, prioritizing a clean API, simplicity, and clear observability for running small LLMs locally. The key features are: - C++ core with CUDA support written from scratch. - A familiar, PyTorch-like Python API. - Runs real models: it's complete enough to load a model like Qwen from HuggingFace and run inference on both CUDA and CPU with a single line change[1]. - Simple, built-in observability for both Python and C++. Next on the roadmap is…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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