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SQLite

SQLite Consortium / Hipp, Wyrick & Company · Relational databases

In-depth entry

Public-domain embedded SQL database engine that stores a whole database in one file and ships inside most operating systems and browsers

Open sourceOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Zyte

Zyte Group Ltd · Data collection & crawling

Web-data company behind Scrapy offering Zyte API for ban-resistant fetching, browser rendering and automatic extraction, plus Scrapy Cloud for hosting spiders

ProprietaryUsage-basedPaidNov 2, 2026

Bright Data

Bright Data Ltd. · Data collection & crawling

Web data platform combining residential, datacenter and ISP proxy networks with unblocking, SERP and scraper APIs, remote browsers, ready-made datasets and an MCP server

ProprietaryFreemiumUsage-basedNov 2, 2026

Browsertrix

Webrecorder · Web archiving

Webrecorder's browser-based web archiving system, available hosted or self-hosted, that crawls sites with real browsers into signed WACZ files replayable with ReplayWeb.page

AGPL-3.0-onlyPaidEnterpriseSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Delta Lake

Delta Lake project (Linux Foundation; created by Databricks) · Data catalogs & formats

Open table format with a transaction log over Parquet files, created by Databricks and hosted by the Linux Foundation, with Spark, Rust and Python implementations

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

NATS

NATS project (CNCF; maintained principally by Synadia) · Messaging & queues

Lightweight Go messaging system with core pub/sub and request-reply plus JetStream persistence, key-value and object stores; a CNCF project

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Neon

Neon (Databricks) · Relational databases

Serverless PostgreSQL service with separated storage and compute, instant database branching and scale-to-zero, now part of Databricks

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

ArchiveBox

ArchiveBox (Nick Sweeting and contributors) · Web archiving

Self-hosted, open-source web archiving tool that saves URLs as HTML, PDF, screenshot, WARC, readable text and media snapshots with a web UI and CLI

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

marimo

marimo (acquisition by CoreWeave announced October 2025) · Notebooks & interactive computing

Reactive Python notebook stored as a plain .py file that re-runs dependent cells automatically and doubles as a script or web app

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Supabase

Supabase Inc. · Relational databases

Open-source backend platform built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database with auto-generated APIs, authentication, file storage, realtime subscriptions and edge functions

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Wayback Machine

Internet Archive · Web archiving

The Internet Archive's public web archive for browsing historical snapshots of web pages, with Save Page Now, Availability, CDX and Memento APIs

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Weaviate

Weaviate B.V. · Vector databases

Open-source vector database in Go with pluggable vectorizer modules, hybrid BM25 and vector search, multi-tenancy and a managed cloud

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreemiumSelf-hostedBroken

Apache DataFusion

Apache Software Foundation · Analytical engines & OLAP

Extensible Rust query engine built on Apache Arrow offering SQL and DataFrame APIs, Parquet readers and an optimizer for embedding in data systems

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Apache Iceberg

Apache Software Foundation · Data catalogs & formats

Open table format for data lakes that adds ACID snapshots, schema and partition evolution and time travel over Parquet, ORC or Avro files

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Apache Spark

Apache Software Foundation · Analytical engines & OLAP

Distributed data processing engine with DataFrame and SQL APIs in Python, Scala, Java and R, plus structured streaming and MLlib

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Crawlee

Apify Technologies s.r.o. · Data collection & crawling

Open-source crawling and scraping library for Node.js/TypeScript and Python that unifies HTTP and headless-browser crawlers with queues, proxies, fingerprints and storage

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Kùzu

Kùzu Inc. (company acquired; project archived) · NoSQL & key-value stores

In-depth entry

Embedded property-graph database with Cypher, vector and full-text search; MIT-licensed but archived in October 2025 after the company was acquired

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalDiscontinuedNov 2, 2026

Prisma ORM

Prisma Data, Inc. · Web frameworks & UI

TypeScript ORM with a declarative schema language, generated type-safe client and migration tooling, from the company that also offers Prisma Postgres and related hosted services

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Pydantic

Pydantic Services Inc. · Data quality & validation

Python data-validation library using type hints to parse, validate and serialize models, with a Rust core; the schema layer behind FastAPI and many LLM SDKs

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalBroken

Scrapfly

Scrapfly · Data collection & crawling

Web scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, cloud browsers, screenshots, AI extraction and a crawler, billed in credits per request

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

SerpApi

SerpApi, LLC · Search & web-data APIs

API that returns live search-engine result pages from Google and other engines as structured JSON, with localization, device and search-type parameters

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Common Crawl

Common Crawl Foundation · Web archiving

Nonprofit open repository of petabyte-scale web crawl data since 2008, published as WARC, WAT and WET files on AWS Open Data with URL and columnar indexes

MixedFreeNov 2, 2026

D3

Observable, Inc. · Data visualization

Modular JavaScript library for bespoke, data-driven web graphics: scales, axes, shapes, layouts, geo projections, transitions and DOM selections

ISCOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Dagster

Dagster Labs · ETL/ELT & orchestration

Asset-oriented Python orchestrator that models pipelines as software-defined data assets with lineage, checks and a hosted Dagster+ option

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumLocalSelf-hostedRedirected