Devtoolwatch BoardZvec review
A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
- 16.2kGitHub stars
- +30new stars, week of Oct 25
- 6.9kdownloads a week, +19% vs 4-week avg
- #31in RAG, data and memory this week
Zvec at a glance
- Category
- RAG, data and memory
- Website
- zvec.org
Is Zvec growing? Usage data
In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Zvec ranked #317 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #31 in RAG, data and memory, with a momentum score of 29 out of 100. Its main package had 6.9k downloads that week, +19% against its own 4-week average.
Show the weekly numbers
| Week of | New stars |
|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 46 |
| Aug 16, 2026 | 63 |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 45 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 268 |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 114 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 69 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 45 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 66 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 44 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 36 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 31 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 30 |
The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.
Zvec alternatives
Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:
| Rank | Tool | Stars | Downloads/wk |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | XERJXERJ is a local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents, packaged as one Rust binary with an Elasticsearch-compatible API. | 17.9k | – |
| #2 | MemvidMemvid is a single-file memory layer for AI agents that packages data, embeddings, search indexes, and metadata into one portable .mv2 file. | 17.3k | – |
| #3 | LEANNLEANN is a Python vector database and RAG library that recomputes embeddings on demand to keep indexes small on personal devices. | 13.7k | – |
| #4 | GraphifyGraphify is an AI coding assistant skill that turns a codebase, with its docs, PDFs, images and videos, into a queryable knowledge graph. | 140k | 480.7k |
| #5 | MarkItDownMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility from Microsoft that converts PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and other files to… | 193.2k | 4.7M |
| #6 | FirecrawlFirecrawl is an API and open source project to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with web pages, returning LLM-ready markdown or JSON… | 197.4k | 2.9M |
Zvec FAQ
How popular is Zvec?
Zvec has 16.2k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 30 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 71 a week. Its main package had 6.9k downloads that week, +19% against its own 4-week average. That made it #31 among RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.
What are the best alternatives to Zvec?
Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: XERJ (#1), Memvid (#2), LEANN (#3), Graphify (#4), MarkItDown (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.
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Zvec README badge
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