The 10 coolest open-source software tools in 2025 (so far) include software for developing AI agentic applications, querying data across distributed sources, and building 3D animations.

But open-source software's price and ability to integrate with other software mesh well with the priorities of application developers, said Evans Data analyst Joe McKendrick.

Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, is unveiling Milvus 2.6, the latest iteration of its database technology designed to accommodate the modern demands of AI workloads ...

DataStrike, a leader in data infrastructure managed services, announced a 600%, six-month increase in its open-source database management business, fueled by rising enterprise adoptions of ...

SAP includes SAP DB with its applications as a free alternative to Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server databases, and it released an open source version of the technology in late 2000. The business ...

KIOXIA is updating its AiSAQ (All-in-Storage ANNS with Product Quantization) software to improve the usability of AI vector database searches within retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems by ...