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July 2026 snapshot

Data & databases✳

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JetBrains /

youtrackdb

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database

Data & databasesLicense unchecked
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leadita /

tech-stack-datasets

Open-sourced a dataset of companies and their detected tech stacks (CSV/JSON)

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20#020
aaemnnosttv /

wp-sqlite-db

Wp-SQLite-db: A single file drop-in for using a SQLite database with WordPress

Data & databasesLicense unchecked
20#021
crevas /

Apple-Ads-CLI

Apple Ads CLI with Keyword-Level Analytics

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20#022
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Rionlyu /

spoold

Spoold - Durable curl without a database or broker

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20#023
SynnoDB /

SynnoDB

SynnoDB – Synthesizing Database engines for your workloads

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20#024
ClickHouse /

RayTracer

Ray Tracer in SQL

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20#025
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syncliteio /

SyncLite

SyncLite – An embedded synchronization layer for SQLite and DuckDB

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12#026
leontrolski /

postgresql-testing

Pip install Postgres – no Docker/Brew/apt

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11#027
commandprompt /

PL-php

Pl/PHP (procedure language) for PostgreSQL

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11#028
leomos /

pigiaminja

Pigiaminja: PostgreSQL extension that adds Jinja template support to COPY TO

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11#029
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dbtrail /

dbtrail

PostgreSQL Now Supported in DBTrail

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11#030
commandprompt /

open_pg_tde

Open_pg_tde: Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL

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11#031
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robintiman /

semcast

A SQL engine with semantic operators to query unstructured data

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11#032
data-centt /

percentify

Y-data, Pandas, polars and analytics in 1

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11#033
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Apakottur /

pgmig

Pgmig: Generate migrations between Postgres databases

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10#034
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janbjorge /

pgnudge

Pgnudge – tell your app which Postgres tables just changed

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10#035
lucasolopes /

haruspex

Reconstructing SQLite's float-to-text without reading the source

Data & databasesLicense unchecked
10#036

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