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LanceDB vs OpenViking

Both are Grade A and 0.3 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. LanceDB leads on adoption and rests on broader evidence.

A LanceDB 87.9

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

lancedb/lancedb · #61 overall · #3 Memory & Knowledge · coverage A (4/5)

Choose LanceDB if adoption matters most.

+0.6Adoption: 1.8M weekly downloads against 66.8k
A vs BEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 3

A OpenViking 87.6

Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.

volcengine/OpenViking · #68 overall · #5 Memory & Knowledge · coverage B (3/5)

OpenViking doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

Where they differ

20.0

Safety / IntegrityOpenViking +0.4

20.4

13.7

TransparencyOpenViking +0.2

13.9

18.1

AdoptionLanceDB +0.6

17.5

-1.8

Runtime calibrationLanceDB +0.3

-2.1

2 dimensions identical: Identity 18.0 · Maintenance 19.9 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of LanceDB and OpenViking, two Memory & Knowledge projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	LanceDBlancedb/lancedb	OpenVikingvolcengine/OpenViking
HVTrust score	87.9	87.6
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	A	B
Overall rank	#61	#68
Rank in Memory & Knowledge	#3	#5
GitHub stars	11.8k	41.4k
Last updated	1d ago	1d ago
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.1 / 10	6.3 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	AGPL-3.0
Downloads	1.8M/wk	67k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	20.0	20.4
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.7	13.9
Maintenance / 20	19.9	19.9
Adoption / 20	18.1	17.5
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	—	Declared
External providers	4 — Amazon Bedrock, Cohere, Google Gemini, …	9 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Firecrawl, …
Requires API keys	No	No
Plugin surface	plugins	plugins
Provenance drift	Unknown	Match

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →