Use case
Databases for Scientific data
Arrays, genomics, imaging and simulation outputs. The leading options are TileDB, GenomicsDB and rasdaman.
16 active · ordered by fit for this category, then WhichDB Score
Embeddable multidimensional array storage engine for dense and sparse data on object storage.
Sparse-array store for genomic variant data, built on TileDB and shipped inside GATK4.
Array database for massive multidimensional rasters, with SQL-style queries and OGC WCPS services.
Meta's C++/Python library for fast dense-vector similarity search and clustering, CPU and GPU.
Pioneering open-source column-store from CWI, still a lean research-grade analytical SQL database.
Open-source native XML database and XQuery application platform for documents and digital editions.
Fast open-source SPARQL engine that serves all of Wikidata or OpenStreetMap from one machine.
Lightweight, fast native XML database and XQuery 3.1/4.0 processor with a GUI.
Serverless DataFrame database from Man Group: Pandas in, versioned columnar data on S3 out.
Google Research's ANN library using anisotropic quantization; the tech behind Vertex AI and AlloyDB vectors.
Genome database system born for C. elegans in 1989, with an object-tree data model; NCBI fork still updated.
Embedded Java hypergraph database where edges can link any number of atoms, including other edges.
Distributed shared-nothing SQL database built to serve the Rubin Observatory's petascale sky catalogs.
Flat-file relational database at the heart of BRTT's Antelope seismic and environmental monitoring suite.
Apache Jena's native RDF store, embeddable in Java or served over SPARQL with Fuseki.
Small, fast SPARQL database in Rust that embeds in Rust, Python and JavaScript or runs as a server.
deprecated, discontinued & research · 7
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