Top 5 Multiformat Open-Source Projects

ipfs

483 22,517 4.4

Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

Project mention: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-16

> CDNs
If you think IPFS is trying to "re-spin CDNs as their invention", I'm pretty sure you misunderstand what IPFS. The homepage is a great starting point if you're curious rather than antagonistic: https://ipfs.tech/
> IPFS doesn't solve persistence of data
I don't think it claims to solve this either? What it does claim to solve is the persistence of identifiers of data.
> doesn't solve churn in p2p systems
What P2P system has ever done so or even claimed to have done so?

multihash

9 877 3.3 Shell

Self describing hashes - for future proofing

Project mention: Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-13

Since you seem to have done a fair bit of research in this area, do you have any opinions or thoughts about the Multihash format?
https://multiformats.io/multihash/
It fills in some of the blanks in your "prefixing the hash with the value of the enum for the hash" step.

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
cid

3 405 3.7

Self-describing content-addressed identifiers for distributed systems
rust-cid

1 81 6.4 Rust

CID in rust
multihash-serialise

30 25 0.0 Haskell

Haskell libraries for interacting with IPFS (by monadic-xyz)
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).