The Best Open-Source Databases

Based on github stars

Top 50 Most Popular Open-Source Databases
by number of GitHub stars

Filtering projects by: Search Engine X

Rank Change 2023 May Project Features Stars Activity Rating
1 - 1 Elasticsearch Search Engine 67,708 10.0 8.92%
11 ↑↑ 13 Milvus Search Engine Vector 26,979 10.0 3.56%
37 ↓ 36 Apache Solr Search Engine 4,366 0.0 0.58%
43 - 43 Sphinx Search Engine 1,783 0.0 0.24%
  • Rating - the percentage of stars of a particular project from the total number.
  • Activity - a relative number between 0 and 10 representing the commits activity of a project.
    9+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 10% of most actively developed projects.
    5+ meaning that the project is amongst the top 50% of most active projects.

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Note that this is an alternative DB-Engines ranking focused on open-source databases only.