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  • Commit continuity, contributor activity, and delivery signals are strong.
  • Health score: 94/100.
  • Shipping score: 90/100.

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etcd

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

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Confidence90
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Milvus

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

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Confidence90
Stars46k
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TiDB

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

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Confidence90
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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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Health97
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Confidence90
Stars34.5k
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Valkey

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

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Health97
Shipping96
Score97
Confidence90
Stars27.2k
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TDengine

High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios

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Health97
Shipping96
Score97
Confidence90
Stars25.1k
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