High Performance Vector Search Vector Databases

There are 11 high performance vector search tools tracked. 3 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is alibaba/zvec at 66/100 with 8,900 stars. 1 of the top 10 are actively maintained.

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# Tool Score Tier
1 alibaba/zvec

A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database

66
Established
2 devflowinc/trieve

All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API

56
Established
3 matte1782/edgevec

High-performance vector search for Browser, Node, and Edge

54
Established
4 rryam/VecturaKit

Swift-based vector database for on-device RAG using MLTensor and MLX Embedders

44
Emerging
5 upstash/semantic-cache

A fuzzy key value store based on semantic similarity rather lexical equality.

44
Emerging
6 KyroDB/KyroDB

Autonomous Vector database for AI agents and RAG. Hybrid Semantic Cache...

44
Emerging
7 Build5Nines/SharpVector

Lightweight, In-memory, Semantic Search, Text Vector Database to embed in...

40
Emerging
8 myscale/MyScaleDB

A @ClickHouse fork that supports high-performance vector search and full-text search.

35
Emerging
9 Michael-A-Kuykendall/contextlite

Database Freedom Platform - Mathematical search optimization for whatever...

32
Emerging
10 ChuckHend/pg_vectorize

Full-text and semantic search on any Postgres

30
Emerging
11 memvector/ext-memvector

MemVector: Local Vector API, Storage & Embedding Engine for PHP

25
Experimental