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milvus-io/milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-06
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2019-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,208 open
Forks
4,164
Commits
25,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+90 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+28 +0.1%
pingcap/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.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-25
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2015-09-06
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
6,639 open
Forks
6,224
Commits
28,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
projectdiscovery/nuclei

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-25
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-04-03
License
MIT
Issues
108 open
Forks
3,641
Commits
6,404 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
netbirdio/netbird

Connect your devices into a secure WireGuardยฎ-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-05-01
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,500 open
Forks
1,535
Commits
3,123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
keploy/keploy

Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2022-01-19
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
687 open
Forks
2,291
Commits
1,472 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
zincsearch/zincsearch

ZincSearch . A lightweight alternative to elasticsearch that requires minimal resources, written in Go.

Updated
2026-06-09
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2021-12-02
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
47 open
Forks
777
Commits
554 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2018-09-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
737 open
Forks
1,700
Commits
12,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
weaviate/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 databaseโ€‹.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2016-03-30
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
642 open
Forks
1,356
Commits
27,571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
crowdsecurity/crowdsec

CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2020-05-15
License
MIT
Issues
285 open
Forks
685
Commits
2,720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
ory/kratos

Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-05-29
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
219 open
Forks
1,174
Commits
5,239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
tinode/chat

Instant messaging platform. Backend in Go. Clients: Swift iOS, Java Android, JS webapp, scriptable command line; chatbots

Updated
2026-07-05
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2015-10-22
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
39 open
Forks
2,070
Commits
4,195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
gravitl/netmaker

Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-03-25
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
225 open
Forks
648
Commits
7,717 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
getlago/lago

Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing API โญ๏ธ Consumption tracking, Subscription management, Pricing iterations, Payment orchestration & Revenue analytics

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-27
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2022-02-28
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
24 open
Forks
712
Commits
746 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+7 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
teamhanko/hanko

Modern authentication, on your terms. Open source alternative to Auth0, Clerk, WorkOS, Stytch.

Updated
2026-07-22
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2022-03-14
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
60 open
Forks
1,012
Commits
2,624 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cloudquery/cloudquery

Data pipelines for cloud config and security data. Build cloud asset inventory, CSPM, FinOps, and vulnerability management solutions. Extract from AWS, Azure, GCP, and 70+ cloud and SaaS sources.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-25
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-11-18
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
158 open
Forks
548
Commits
22,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
SeldonIO/seldon-core

An MLOps framework to package, deploy, monitor and manage thousands of production machine learning models

AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2021-08-31
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
395 open
Forks
866
Commits
1,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.

Updated
2026-07-25
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2021-01-31
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
62 open
Forks
198
Commits
2,625 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
rudderlabs/rudder-server

Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2019-07-19
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
44 open
Forks
57
Commits
6,611 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
spacecloud-io/space-cloud

Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes

Updated
2024-07-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-02-09
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
147 open
Forks
230
Commits
1,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
storj/storj

Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-22
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-04-06
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
360 open
Forks
426
Commits
13,407 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
warrant-dev/warrant

Warrant is a highly scalable, centralized authorization service based on Google Zanzibar. Use it to define, enforce, query, and audit application authorization and access control.

Updated
2025-12-05
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2023-02-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
24 open
Forks
51
Commits
288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
selefra/selefra

The open-source policy-as-code software that provides analysis for Multi-Cloud and SaaS environments, you can get insight with natural language (powered by OpenAI).

Updated
2023-08-30
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2023-03-21
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
0 open
Forks
46
Commits
82 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history