Best C Tools & Libraries

netdata

github

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

redis

github

For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.

nginx

github

The official NGINX Open Source repository.

valkey

github

A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.

TDengine

github

High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios

Tasmota

github

Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

radare2

github

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

timescaledb

github

A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension

C

github

Collection of various algorithms in mathematics, machine learning, computer science, physics, etc implemented in C for educational purposes.

nnn

github

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

goaccess

github

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

vlc

github

VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

libsql

github

libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.

realm-swift

github

Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for Core Data & SQLite

hammerspoon

github

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

systeminformer

github

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ http://www.windows-internals.com

openvpn

github

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

nmap

github

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

citus

github

Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

wcdb

github

WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat.

dicedb

github

Open-source, low-latency key/value engine built on Valkey with query subscriptions and hierarchical storage tiers.

nvtop

github

GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

db_tutorial

github

Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C

yugabyte-db

github

YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.