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Top Rust Vector databases repositories on GitHub

Embedding stores and approximate nearest-neighbour search engines. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Rust.

Ranked by stars across 60 Rust repositories tagged vector-database. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    meilisearch/meilisearch59,345 · ⑂ 2,713

    A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

    • search-engine
    • typo-tolerance
    • site-search
    • database
    • enterprise-search
    • search
  2. 2
    qdrant/qdrant34,696 · ⑂ 2,686

    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/

    • neural-network
    • search-engine
    • knn-algorithm
    • hnsw
    • vector-search
    • nearest-neighbor-search
  3. 3
    memvid/memvid16,549 · ⑂ 1,421

    Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.

    • ai
    • context
    • embedded
    • faiss
    • knowledge-base
    • knowledge-graph
  4. 4
    lancedb/lancedb11,473 · ⑂ 1,061

    Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

    • approximate-nearest-neighbor-search
    • image-search
    • nearest-neighbor-search
    • recommender-system
    • search-engine
    • semantic-search
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  6. 5
    databendlabs/databend9,444 · ⑂ 897

    Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

    • rust
    • database
    • serverless
    • bigdata
    • snowflake
    • ai
  7. 6
    paradedb/paradedb9,289 · ⑂ 458

    One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. Home of the pg_search extension.

    • sparse-vector
    • hybrid-search
    • bm25
    • full-text-search
    • analytics
    • olap
  8. 7
    postgresml/postgresml6,823 · ⑂ 363

    Postgres with GPUs for ML/AI apps.

    • ml
    • machine-learning
    • ai
    • ann
    • artificial-intelligence
    • classification
  9. 8
    RediSearch/RediSearch6,240 · ⑂ 602

    A query and indexing engine for Redis, providing secondary indexing, full-text search, vector similarity search and aggregations.

    • redis
    • redis-module
    • search
    • search-engine
    • inverted-index
    • fulltext
  10. 9
    HelixDB/helix-db5,955 · ⑂ 359

    HelixDB is an OLTP graph database with native vector and full-text search built in Rust on Object Storage.

    • ai
    • cli
    • database
    • databases
    • graph-database
    • helix
  11. 10
    tensorchord/pgvecto.rs2,187 · ⑂ 87

    Scalable, Low-latency and Hybrid-enabled Vector Search in Postgres. Revolutionize Vector Search, not Database.

    • llm
    • vector
    • vector-database
    • faiss
    • nearest-neighbor-search
    • gpt
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  13. 11
    xerj-org/xerj1,978 · ⑂ 226

    XERJ is the new way for AI to search data. Its autoindex capability activates agents to know your data without the token waste of grep and sed. One command indexes code, docs, logs and PDFs for search, RAG, security audits and agent memory, using 40x fewer tokens than grep. Elasticsearch compatible, so existing clients just work.

    • ai-search
    • ai-search-algorithms
    • ai-search-engine
    • ai-search-free
    • ai-search-module
    • ai-search-optimization
  14. 12
    SeekStorm/SeekStorm1,913 · ⑂ 69

    SeekStorm: vector & lexical search - in-process library & multi-tenancy server, in Rust.

    • enterprise-search
    • full-text-search
    • search
    • search-engine
    • search-server
    • search-service
  15. 13
    supervc-stack/VectorChord1,797 · ⑂ 72

    Scalable, fast, and disk-friendly vector search in Postgres, the successor of pgvecto.rs.

    • artificial-intelligence
    • llmops
    • postgresql
    • vector-database
    • vector-search
  16. 14
    StarlightSearch/EmbedAnything1,307 · ⑂ 142

    Highly Performant, Modular, Memory Safe and Production-ready Inference, Ingestion and Indexing built in Rust 🦀

    • machine-learning
    • indexing
    • rag
    • rust
    • information-retrieval
    • vector-database
  17. 15

    Learn vector search with Rust and DataFusion; the C++/BusTub track is deprecated.

    • vector-database
    • tutorial
    • apache-arrow
    • approximate-nearest-neighbor
    • course
    • database-systems
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    • elasticsearch
    • mcp
    • mcp-server
    • vector-database
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    lightonai/next-plaid546 · ⑂ 60

    NextPlaid, ColGREP: Multi-vector search, from database to coding agents.

    • agentic-rag
    • cli
    • grep
    • multi-vector
    • vector-database
  21. 18
    m1guelpf/tinyvector438 · ⑂ 25

    A tiny embedding database in pure Rust.

    • embeddings
    • embeddings-similarity
    • machine-learning
    • rust
    • search-engines
    • similarity-search
  22. 19
    edwinkys/oasysdb376 · ⑂ 13

    In-memory vector store with efficient read and write performance for semantic caching and retrieval system. Redis for Semantic Caching.

    • open-source
    • vector-database
    • approximate-nearest-neighbors
    • similarity-search
    • vector-search
    • ivfpq

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