GitDB is a version-controlled vector database. Branch, merge, diff, and time-travel your embeddings the same way git handles source code. No server, no Docker — pip install gitdb-vectors and go.
What makes it different:
- Version control is native — git log, git diff, git branch, git merge for vectors. Roll back to any commit. Cherry-pick by
meaning.
- Time-travel queries — db.query_text("revenue", at="v1.0") searches an old snapshot.
- CEPH CRUSH placement — deterministic data routing. Scales horizontally by adding peers, no coordinator.
- P2P distributed — peers sync over SSH like git remotes. Each node is a full shard.
- FoundationDB features — hooks, transactions, watches, secondary indexes, schema enforcement.
- Universal ingest — swallow entire SQLite databases, MongoDB exports, CSV, Parquet, PDF with one command:
db.ingest("legacy.db")
- CLI-first — works from terminal like git: gitdb init && gitdb add --text "doc" && gitdb commit -m "init"
- Embedded — no server process. Import and query in 3 lines of Python.
21 modules, 13,150 lines, 394 tests. GPU-accelerated (MPS/CUDA/CPU).
GitHub: https://github.com/VincentKaufmann/GitDB
PyPI: pip install gitdb-vectorsComments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382096
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