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1. spacedrive

   1 31 38,593 9.9 Rust

   Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

   

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3. opendal

   2 16 5,242 9.8 Rust

   Apache OpenDAL: One Layer, All Storage.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: DAGraph – local-first reactive graph from arithmetic to OLAP SQL | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13

4. gluesql

   3 15 3,096 8.6 Rust

   GlueSQL is quite sticky. It sticks to anything.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: I built an LSM storage engine from scratch in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-05

   Yes! This is a great idea. Thanks for mentioning it! GlueSQL could be another cool target too (https://github.com/gluesql/gluesql). I think there's a fun exploration in taking a storage engine and seeing if it's compatible with different SQL layers — GlueSQL as a simpler starting point, DataFusion as the more complete option (https://github.com/apache/datafusion). Plugging into a real SQL engine seems like a great strategy for uncovering bugs, fixing correctness issues, and discovering what use cases the storage layer actually needs to support. It's also interesting how certain SQL engines and storage engines tend to align well with each other — the right pairing can unlock a lot. Definitely a direction I want to explore.

5. zenoh

   4 17 2,987 9.6 Rust

   zenoh unifies data in motion, data in-use, data at rest and computations. It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with geo-distributed storages, queries and computations, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.

   

6. OctoBase

   5 3 2,021 3.8 Rust

   🐙 OctoBase is the open-source database behind AFFiNE, local-first, yet collaborative. A light-weight, scalable, data engine written in Rust.

   

7. robustmq

   6 1 1,659 9.6 Rust

   Communication infrastructure for the AI era — one binary, one broker, one storage layer, any protocol

   

8. nydus

   7 6 1,613 9.3 Rust

   Nydus - the Dragonfly image service, providing fast, secure and easy access to container images.

   

   Project mention: What Has Docker Become? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-23

   Docker, or rather containerd, still has better plugin ecosystem around it. Unregistry https://github.com/psviderski/unregistry, Nydus https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus, all the different "snapshotters" (storage formats), or the utils for sharing NVIDIA GPUs with containers, etc.

   The gap with Podman is closing though, and most users don't need any of these in the first place.

9. graft

   8 7 1,495 9.4 Rust

   Graft is an open-source transactional storage engine optimized for lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication—perfect for edge, offline-first, and distributed applications.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-26

   You might be interested in taking a look at Graft (https://graft.rs/). I have been iterating in this space for the last year, and have learned a lot about it. Graft has a slightly different set of goals, one of which is to keep writes fast and small and optimize for partial replication. That said, Graft shares several design decisions, including the use of framed ZStd compression to store pages.

   I do like the B-tree aware grouping idea. This seems like a useful optimization for larger scan-style workloads. It helps eliminate the need to vacuum as much.

   Have you considered doing other kinds of optimizations? Empty pages, free pages, etc.

10. PumpkinDB

    9 1 1,399 0.0 Rust

    Immutable Ordered Key-Value Database Engine

    

11. Mayastor

    10 6 1,052 9.3 Rust

    Dynamically provision Stateful Persistent Replicated Cluster-wide Fabric Volumes & Filesystems for Kubernetes that is provisioned from an optimized NVME SPDK backend data storage stack.

    

12. stratisd

    11 14 866 9.2 Rust

    Easy to use local storage management for Linux.

    

13. xet-core

    12 2 523 9.4 Rust

    xet client tech, used in huggingface_hub

    

    Project mention: Xet Core: scale Git to terabyte-sized repos | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-26

14. Memoria

    13 4 405 9.3 Rust

    Secure memory management for AI Agents • Ensures data integrity • Reduces hallucinations • Maintains consistent long-term context (by matrixorigin)

    

    Project mention: Benchmarking Memoria on LongMemEval: Strong Memory Retrieval, Clear Reader Separation | dev.to | 2026-04-16

    Experience the power of persistent memory for AI Agents. 🧠 💻 GitHub (Star us!):[https://github.com/matrixorigin/Memoria] 🌐 Website: [https://thememoria.ai/] 👾 Discord: [https://discord.com/]

15. ReductStore

    14 55 362 9.6 Rust

    High Performance Data Backbone for Robotics and Industrial IoT

    

16. tauri-plugin-store

    15 1 308 2.2 Rust

    [READ ONLY] This repository is a mirror, for issue tracking and development head to: https://github.com/tauri-apps/plugins-workspace

    

17. nasty

    16 1 294 9.9 Rust

    bcachefs based NAS solution (by nasty-project)

    

    Project mention: A NAS appliance built on bcachefs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-06

18. replited

    17 1 255 4.0 Rust

    Replicate SQLite to every where(S3\ftp\webdav\google drive\dropbox,etc)

    

19. string-interner

    18 1 220 5.6 Rust

    A data structure to efficiently intern, cache and restore strings.

    

20. ahnlich

    19 3 210 9.2 Rust

    Suite of tools containing an in-memory vector datastore and AI proxy

    

    Project mention: Ahnlich, a fast lightweight similarity search engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-06

    We've built ähnlich! A fast lightweight no-BS similarity search engine that runs in-memory. Docs are live at https://ahnlich.dev and we currently support Python, Rust and Go libraries

    More than open to your contributions and usecases that I haven't considered at https://github.com/deven96/ahnlich

21. edma

    20 10 203 5.0 Rust

    EDMA is an interactive terminal app for managing multiple embedded databases system at once with powerful byte deserializer support.

    

22. lethe

    21 2 151 0.0 Rust

    Secure drive wipe

    

23. infinitree

    22 2 149 4.5 Rust

    Scalable and encrypted embedded database with 3-tier caching

    

24. Cherry-Node

    23 2 74 0.0 Rust

    Cherry Network's node implemented in Rust

    

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