Best Open Source Vector Databases

Ranked by GitHub stars and 342 days of tracked growth. The top open source vector databases below are updated daily β€” pick two to see a full side-by-side comparison.

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anything-llm
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
⭐ 67.3k +32.2%
2
meilisearch
A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.
⭐ 59.6k +9.5%
3
serviette
A no-code RAG server that keeps answers in sync with your documents. Works with 8 vector databases. Built on Pathway.
⭐ 58.8k
4
llama_index
LlamaIndex is the document processing platform for AI
⭐ 52.6k +16.4%
5
milvus
Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search
⭐ 46.4k +20.9%
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OpenViking
Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.
⭐ 40.3k +0.9%
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PageIndex
πŸ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
⭐ 39.3k +89.8%
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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/
⭐ 35.1k +30.0%
9
onyx
Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM
⭐ 32.6k +38.5%
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cognee
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory with small models for free
⭐ 32.5k +291.5%
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RAG_Techniques
This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.
⭐ 29.9k +12.1%
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weaviate
Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database​.
⭐ 16.9k +12.6%

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