MemWal (now Walrus Memory) alternatives

Walrus is a Sui-blockchain decentralised storage protocol; MemWal is its AI-facing SDK that stores encrypted agent memory on-chain — portable, verifiable, shareable across agent systems with no single-vendor lock-in. Full MemWal (now Walrus Memory) record →

  1. 1 Haystack Memory (deepset) Framework-embedded memory

    same retrieval (exact-match) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 26k released 2026-10-21 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  2. 2 Memori Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 17k released 2026-05-28 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  3. 3 Memvid Dedicated memory layers

    also in Dedicated memory layers · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 17k released 2026-05-27 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  4. 4 engram Claude Code memory mechanisms

    same retrieval (exact-match) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed — MCP ✓ ★ 6.7k released 2026-10-21 MIT Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  5. 5 Screenpipe Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory

    same retrieval (exact-match) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode)

    OSS — Self-host ? Managed ? MCP ? ★ 22k released 2026-10-22 source-available (Screenpipe Commercial License) Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  6. 6 local-memory-mcp Claude Code memory mechanisms

    same retrieval (exact-match) · same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (document) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 13 released 2026-08-19 MIT Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  7. 7 smolagents Memory Framework-embedded memory

    same conflict handling (append) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 29k released 2026-05-29 Apache-2.0 Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

  8. 8 AgentOps Memory observability & monitoring

    same retrieval (exact-match) · same memory unit (episode) · also open source · also self-hostable

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 5.8k released 2025-08-29 MIT (SDK) Compare with MemWal (now Walrus Memory) →

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