116,000 stars vs. one binary.
claude-mem needs Node, Bun, uv and Chroma, has a second AI write your memory, and turns analytics on by default.
palace-rs is one binary and one SQLite file. It stores your memory verbatim, uses zero tokens, has no telemetry, and scores 98.7% R
@5 on LongMemEval.
Every claim is quoted from the repos. Go check them.