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.
- 1meilisearch/meilisearch★ 59,345 · ⑂ 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
- 2qdrant/qdrant★ 34,696 · ⑂ 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
- 3memvid/memvid★ 16,549 · ⑂ 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
- 4lancedb/lancedb★ 11,473 · ⑂ 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
- Live search
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- 5databendlabs/databend★ 9,444 · ⑂ 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
- 6paradedb/paradedb★ 9,289 · ⑂ 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
- 7postgresml/postgresml★ 6,823 · ⑂ 363
Postgres with GPUs for ML/AI apps.
- ml
- machine-learning
- ai
- ann
- artificial-intelligence
- classification
- 8RediSearch/RediSearch★ 6,240 · ⑂ 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
- 9HelixDB/helix-db★ 5,955 · ⑂ 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
- 10tensorchord/pgvecto.rs★ 2,187 · ⑂ 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
- Live search
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- 11xerj-org/xerj★ 1,978 · ⑂ 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
- 12SeekStorm/SeekStorm★ 1,913 · ⑂ 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
- 13supervc-stack/VectorChord★ 1,797 · ⑂ 72
Scalable, fast, and disk-friendly vector search in Postgres, the successor of pgvecto.rs.
- artificial-intelligence
- llmops
- postgresql
- vector-database
- vector-search
- 14StarlightSearch/EmbedAnything★ 1,307 · ⑂ 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
- 15skyzh/vector-db-from-scratch★ 803 · ⑂ 29
Learn vector search with Rust and DataFusion; the C++/BusTub track is deprecated.
- vector-database
- tutorial
- apache-arrow
- approximate-nearest-neighbor
- course
- database-systems
- 16elastic/mcp-server-elasticsearch★ 718 · ⑂ 155
- elasticsearch
- mcp
- mcp-server
- vector-database
- Live search
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- 17lightonai/next-plaid★ 546 · ⑂ 60
NextPlaid, ColGREP: Multi-vector search, from database to coding agents.
- agentic-rag
- cli
- grep
- multi-vector
- vector-database
- 18m1guelpf/tinyvector★ 438 · ⑂ 25
A tiny embedding database in pure Rust.
- embeddings
- embeddings-similarity
- machine-learning
- rust
- search-engines
- similarity-search
- 19edwinkys/oasysdb★ 376 · ⑂ 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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