Free Embedded / object-store vector DB for AI agents

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• Chroma · dev_tool · oss · Apache-2.0

  Self-hosted or embedded vector database.

  Limits: none stored.

  Source · asOf 2026-10-25 · Re-fetched twice 2026-10-25 (~10 s apart, plain curl, no login): GitHub blob page HTTP 200, no redirect (page chrome differs between fetches); raw LICENSE fetched twice too, HTTP 200, byte-identical: 'Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004'. License unchanged.

• LanceDB · dev_tool · oss · Apache-2.0

  Embedded vector database library.

  Limits: none stored.

  Source · asOf 2026-10-25 · Re-fetched twice 2026-10-25 (~10 s apart, plain curl, no login): GitHub blob page HTTP 200, no redirect (page chrome differs between fetches); raw LICENSE fetched twice too, HTTP 200, byte-identical: 'Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004'. License unchanged.

• FAISS · free_vector · oss · MIT

  Open-source library for vector similarity search.

  Limits: none stored.

  Source · asOf 2026-10-25 · LICENSE fetched 2026-10-03 is MIT, copyright Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. Re-fetched twice 2026-10-25 (~10 s apart, plain curl, no login): HTTP 200, no redirect, byte-identical: 'MIT License' / 'Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.'. License unchanged.

• sqlite-vec · free_vector · oss · MIT

  Open-source SQLite extension for vector search.

  Limits: none stored.

  Source · asOf 2026-10-25 · LICENSE-MIT fetched 2026-10-03 is MIT, copyright 2024 Alex Garcia. A path named LICENSE.md was 404. Re-fetched twice 2026-10-25 (~10 s apart, plain curl, no login): HTTP 200, no redirect, byte-identical: 'MIT License' / 'Copyright (c) 2024 Alex Garcia'. License unchanged.

Reference (docs, public datasets and benchmarks) (0)

None.