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  • Health score: 98/100.
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12 tools
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etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Active
Health96
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars52.4k
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Milvus

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

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Health97
Shipping96
Score97
Confidence90
Stars46.5k
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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/

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Health96
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars35.3k
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Valkey

A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.

Active
Health96
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars27.5k
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