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Project mention: Best Open Source Monitoring Tools in 2026: 7 Self-Hosted Options Compared | dev.to | 2026-06-13
Netdata is a real-time infrastructure monitoring agent that collects metrics at per-second granularity with near-zero configuration. Install the agent on a server, and within seconds you have 2,000+ metrics being collected — CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, processes, containers, and hundreds of application-specific collectors. The level of instant visibility is unmatched.
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Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Project mention: OpenTelemetry: The Foundation of Modern Cloud-Native Observability — Traces, Metrics, Logs, and the Future of Observability | dev.to | 2026-05-28Grafana Labs ecosystem Datadog New Relic Dynatrace Splunk Elastic Custom data lakes and analytics systems
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
Project mention: Three Ways to Convert JSON to TypeScript. Only One Is Deterministic. | dev.to | 2026-04-27CMS content. Headless CMS responses from Strapi, Sanity, or Contentful are deeply nested. Type them once; let the compiler catch template bugs.
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coolify
An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
Install Coolify (free, open source) on a VPS and deploy Memos from its catalog. You get a web UI and auto-updates, but Coolify itself wants ~2 GB of RAM, which is heavier than the app it is managing. Worth it only if you are already running Coolify for other apps.
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Project mention: CLI to manage your SQL database schemas and migrations | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-01
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Metabase
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Project mention: Metabase VS onequery - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/metabase | 2026-06-01 -
Project mention: GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their Credit Values | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11
What would you suggest as an alternative? Gitlab really sucks in my personal opinion, but what are your experiences with:
Gogs https://gogs.io/ (this IS gitea btw)
Forgejo https://forgejo.org/
Self hosted or cloud hosted. Also excluding Github because, please just fracking don't.
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Prisma
Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB
Project mention: Performance Comparison: Flyway 10.0 vs. Liquibase 4.28 vs. Prisma Migrate 6.0 for Database Migrations | dev.to | 2026-04-30⭐ prisma/prisma — 45,859 stars, 2,180 forks
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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.
A similar issue was also found in Tidb:
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MindsDB
General-purpose AI designed for knowledge workers — creators, strategists, and operators — and individuals seeking AI systems they can truly control to help them get work done, with full flexibility to extend and deploy anywhere (VPC, on-prem, or cloud).
Project mention: MindsDB Supercharges Google's MCP Toolbox with Unstructured Data Support | dev.to | 2025-12-29We’re happy to announce that we’ve integrated MindsDB with Google's open-source project, MCP (Model Context Protocol) Toolbox. This will make your AI applications very, very smart. This enhancement expands the Toolbox's reach, especially for organizations grappling with lots of siloed data.
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TypeORM
TypeScript & JavaScript ORM for Node.js — supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, and more.
TypeORM - TypeORM is an ORM that can run in NodeJS, Browser, Cordova, PhoneGap, Ionic, React Native
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Directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
How does Directus 2026.0 compare to NocoDB 2026.1 for teams needing custom API extensions?
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Project mention: Flat Chat Threads Suck for Reading Books. So I Built a Local-First AI Tree Companion. | dev.to | 2026-06-08
Built on the Pi SDK for tree-structured agent conversations, Hono for a lightweight server (Electron-friendly), and SQLite with Drizzle ORM for metadata.
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Project mention: Ditch Vercel & Netlify: The Best Self-Hosted Alternatives in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-06-01
GitHub: Dokploy/dokploy (34K+ stars) License: Apache 2.0 Best for: Developers who want a Vercel-inspired UI with Docker Swarm clustering
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Sequelize
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB, DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Sequelize - promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server
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Redash
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
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Chat2DB
AI-driven database tool and SQL client, The hottest GUI client, supporting MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, SQL Server, DB2, SQLite, H2, ClickHouse, and more.
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dub
The modern link attribution platform. Loved by world-class marketing teams like Framer, Perplexity, Superhuman, Twilio, Buffer and more.
First up: Dub — YC-backed link management. 20K+ stars.
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I'm using Beads for this. It stores data locally via Dolt, gives agents programmatic access, and handles dependencies between tasks. The key commands:
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beekeeper-studio
Modern and easy to use SQL client for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and more. Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Beekeeper Studio is a modern SQL editor and database manager with an open-source community edition. It supports many databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, ClickHouse, DuckDB, MariaDB, Oracle, Redis, Redshift, Trino, and more.
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chartdb
Database diagrams editor that allows you to visualize and design your DB with a single query.
Project mention: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-10the limits of a no-code website editor https://chartdb.io/ that's hilarious
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Matomo
Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source MySQL projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JavaGuide | 156,282 |
| 2 | Netdata | 79,142 |
| 3 | Grafana | 74,334 |
| 4 | Strapi | 72,350 |
| 5 | coolify | 56,890 |
| 6 | dbeaver | 50,531 |
| 7 | Metabase | 47,662 |
| 8 | Gogs | 47,598 |
| 9 | Prisma | 46,238 |
| 10 | tidb | 40,162 |
| 11 | MindsDB | 39,289 |
| 12 | TypeORM | 36,537 |
| 13 | Directus | 35,995 |
| 14 | drizzle-orm | 34,778 |
| 15 | dokploy | 34,765 |
| 16 | Sequelize | 30,350 |
| 17 | Redash | 28,636 |
| 18 | Chat2DB | 25,751 |
| 19 | dub | 23,688 |
| 20 | dolt | 23,410 |
| 21 | beekeeper-studio | 23,000 |
| 22 | chartdb | 22,353 |
| 23 | Matomo | 21,592 |
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