Alternatives to compiledb
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. compiledb itself: install compiledb.
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MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database
sqlancer
Automated testing to find logic and performance bugs in database systems
SuperDB
An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database
postgrest
REST API for any Postgres database
turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases
golang-migrate
Database migrations. CLI and Golang library
dbmate
🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
sqlboiler
Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema
sysbench
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
tbls
tbls is a CI-Friendly tool to document a database, written in Go
kuzu
Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher
pgcopydb
Copy a Postgres database to a target Postgres server (pg_dump | pg_restore on steroids)
db-vcs
Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line
Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure serv
octosql
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL
wal-g
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
yek
A fast Rust based tool to serialize text-based files in a repository or directory for LLM consumption
markdown-toc
API and CLI for generating a markdown TOC (table of contents) for a README or any markdown files. Uses Remarkable to parse markdown. Used by NASA/open
generate-json-schema
🧞 Convert JSON Objects to MySQL, JSON Schema, Mongoose, Google BigQuery, Swagger, and more
BuildSettingExtractor
Extracts the build settings of an Xcode project into xcconfig build configuration files
bear
Generate compile_commands.json for any C or C++ build
hcxtools
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper
dyff
/ˈdʏf/ - diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than compiledb — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
compiledb is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.