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Vald

no tagged release in over a year

free — Apache-2.0#nothing-new-included-so-

a genuinely interesting kubernetes-native design that has not cut a release in over a year — do not start a project on it.

vald is a distributed, kubernetes-native vector search engine built on the ngt library, and the architecture is legitimately interesting if you already live in kubernetes.

it has not produced a tagged release in more than twelve months. commits continue, but they are consistent with automated dependency updates rather than feature work, and the two releases before that were also many months apart.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

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free — Apache-2.0
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our verdict

a genuinely interesting kubernetes-native design that has not cut a release in over a year — do not start a project on it.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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