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Cognitive memory database for AI agents — consolidates duplicates, detects contradictions, fades stale memories via temporal decay. Rust, AGPL, ships as library / MCP server / HTTP cluster.

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A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction

by pranabsarkar·Apr 14, 2026·48 points·33 comments

AI Analysis

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Vector DBs store memories; this one forgets, consolidates, and flags contradictions like human memory.

Strengths
  • Temporal decay with configurable half-life lets unimportant memories fade automatically.
  • Contradiction detection surfaces incompatible facts before they corrupt agent reasoning.
  • Consolidation collapses duplicate memories—20 fragments become 5 canonical entries.
Weaknesses
  • Alpha stage with author as primary user—needs more real-world deployment validation.
  • AGPL license may limit enterprise adoption compared to permissive alternatives.
Category
Target Audience

AI agent developers building long-term memory systems

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Post Description

Vector databases store memories. They don't manage them. After 10k memories, recall quality degrades because there's no consolidation, no forgetting, no conflict resolution. Your AI agent just gets noisier.

YantrikDB is a cognitive memory engine — embed it, run it as a server, or connect via MCP. It thinks about what it stores: consolidation collapses duplicate memories, contradiction detection flags incompatible facts, temporal decay with configurable half-life lets unimportant memories fade like human memory does.

Single Rust binary. HTTP + binary wire protocol. 2-voter + 1-witness HA cluster via Docker Compose or Kubernetes. Chaos-tested failover, runtime deadlock detection (parking_lot), per-tenant quotas, Prometheus metrics. Ran a 42-task hardening sprint last week — 1178 core tests, cargo-fuzz targets, CRDT property tests, 5 ops runbooks.

Live on a 3-node Proxmox homelab cluster with multiple tenants. Alpha — primary user is me, looking for the second one.

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