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nuclia/nucliadb

NucliaDB, The AI Search database for RAG

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721 stars58 forksLast push 4d Python Other

Decision brief

NucliaDB offers AI-driven semantic search tailored for unstructured data with RAG capabilities, built using Python and Rust.

Good fit when

Need robust semantic indexing and language model integration in your search solutions
Working on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) projects requiring advanced text classification

Avoid when

Seeking a simpler NoSQL database without AI-powered features for unstructured data
Looking for a solution exclusively focused on numeric or structured data processing

Observed Jul 12, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts

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Adoption

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Docker Hub pulls (30d): 219,160·Docker Hub API·2d

Maintenance and security

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Maintenance: Very active (1d since push); As of 2d
Provenance: Not a fork · Organization account; As of 2d
Security (OSV): No lockfile; As of 1mo

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Install

pip install nucliadb

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Evidence and technical details

Sourced facts, taxonomy, compatibility claims, README excerpt, and machine-readable endpoints.

Overview

A robust platform designed specifically for processing and searching unstructured data through advanced semantic indexing and language model integration. It serves as an AI search solution that emphasizes retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities.

Capability facts

Deploy: Self-host
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Aug 23, 2026
Docker: Dockerfile present
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Aug 23, 2026
Languages: python
Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Aug 23, 2026

README

What license does NucliaDB use?

NucliaDB is open-source under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 - AGPLv3. Fundamentally, this means that you are free to use NucliaDB for your project, as long as you don't modify NucliaDB. If you do, you have to make the modifications public.

For agents

This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.

/tools/nuclia-nucliadb.md GET /api/graphcanon/tools/nuclia-nucliadb GET /api/graphcanon/graph?tool=nuclia-nucliadb