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The 10 Coolest Open-Source Software Tools Of 2025

The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 include software for developing AI agentic applications, managing streams ...
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Redis and Open Source—What Will the Consequences Be?

The world of open source has moved from being a niche interest that was the province of academics and self-described geeks to the mainstream. From being the purview of free software interest groups, ...

Chinese Open-Source Power Shines on the Global Stage: Highgo Database and IvorySQL Open-Source Database Community Make a Splash at GITEX GLOBAL 2025

From October 13 to 17, 2025, one of the world’s most influential technology events—GITEX GLOBAL 2025—was held at the Dubai World Trade Center. Under the theme “AI Everywhere,” the exhibition brought ...
VentureBeat

Timescale expands open source vector database capabilities for PostgreSQL

Timescale is looking to further advance its namesake open-source database platform with new AI capabilities announced today. Timescale was founded in 2017 as a time series database (TSDB) technology ...
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Open-source database PostgreSQL 16 brings performance and scaling enhancements

The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, ...
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Supabase reels in $200M for its open-source relational database

Database developer Supabase Inc. has raised $200 million in funding from a group of prominent investors at a $2 billion valuation. Fortune reported the investment today. The round included the ...
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Milvus Hits 35,000 GitHub Stars as AI Developers Embrace Open-Source Vector Database

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zilliz, creator of the leading open-source vector database Milvus, today announced that Milvus has achieved 35,000 stars on GitHub, establishing it ...

7 open-source apps I'd honestly pay for because they're that good

ZDNET key takeaways There are tons of brilliant open-source apps.You'll find open-source titles for Linux, MacOS, and Windows.Some of these apps are so good, they should have a price tag. Since I ...
TechCrunch

Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M

Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, Berlin-based Qdrant is seeking to ...
InfoWorld

3 open source NLP tools for data extraction

Developers and data scientists use generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to query volumes of documents and unstructured data. Open source LLMs, including Dolly 2.0, EleutherAI Pythia, Meta AI ...
USA Today

Will open-source data and AI help the world's oceans survive a record-breaking year of heat?

Approximately one in four marine life creatures live in coral reefs. Commonly mistaken for plants, corals are critical animals that provide aquatic species with the food, shelter, and breeding grounds ...
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The 10 Coolest Open-Source Software Tools Of 2023

Open-source software tools are increasing in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...