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OpenMLDB

4Paradigm
open source / Overall score: 2.8

OpenMLDB is a machine learning database that computes SQL-defined features consistently between offline training and online, low-latency inference. It ships as a distributed, highly-available cluster with an online and offline execution engine sharing the same feature definitions.

No PyPI artifact is declared on purpose. openmldb on PyPI is the Python SDK for connecting to a running OpenMLDB cluster, built from the `python/` directory of this repository, not the distributed database engine; installing it gives you a way to reach a cluster, not a cluster. Declaring it would make the SDK's count the product's adoption on the next warehouse refresh, so it stays undeclared and adoption reads from stars.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core features withheld
no

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole cluster engine, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it.

Adoption

2 low confidence
2.0

OpenMLDB declares no package artifact: the openmldb package on PyPI is a client SDK for a running cluster, not the cluster engine itself, so it is left out rather than counted and ignored. With no deployment count published either, GitHub stars are the only adoption signal available.

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

OpenMLDB is a complete, highly available distributed database that computes SQL-defined features consistently across offline batch and online serving, with its own persistence and replication. It retrieves and computes features rather than hosting ranking or embedding models inside a serving path, which is what Vespa does and what keeps OpenMLDB one step below it.

Verified 2026-09-27